SUBJECT-INDEX. 



Page. 



Afognak, when seals appear off 227 



Alaska catch 519, 548, 551 



Alaska Commercial Company : 



care taken of seals 417, 422 



formation of 536, 580 



lease from Kussia of Commander Islands 542 



log hook of 29 



not engaged in pelagic sealing ■ 79 



statement of skins purchased by 510 



Alaska, Southeastern, no seals 247 



Aleute, Russian gunboat 65 



Aleutian inhabitants, seal hunters 54, 63 



Aleutian Islands: 



feeding of seals 411 



hauling up not done on i:05, 206, 213, 214 



rookeries, none L'08, 215, 216 



seals not seen in vicinity 213, 215, 216 



American management, improved methods under 58, 69, 77 



Anchor Point (Cooks Inlet), seals oft", few 229, 230, 232 



Annette Island, no seals at 277, 284, 287 



Antarctic sealing 450 



rookeries destroyed 456, 593, 596 



seals 424 



Areas of rookeries ". 407,417 



Attn Island, seals do not visit 214 



Australia, sealskins from 569, 578 



Bachelor seals. (^Ve Seals.) 



Barclay Sound, seals scarce in 305, 306, 311 



Barren Island (Cooks Inlet), hunting on 219 



Bates, C. Francis, corroborates Joseph Ullmaun 528 



" Bedlamers" 592 



Bering Island 199 



Big Polavina, rookery 13 



Birth, pelagic. {See Pups.) 



Brabant, Father, Belgic priest 332 



Branding 98, 106, 137, 160, 194 



" Breachers," defined 355 



Breeding. (*See Seals.) 



Breeding grounds, {See Rookeries.) 



Brerton, Engineer 415 



British Columbia, hauling up, not done on 287, 288 



Buyers of sealskins 564, 566 



Bulls, age when thev seek breeding grounds 166 



arrival of . . . /. 25, 66, 75, 81, 129, 133, 148 



breeding, saved 81 



described 63 



destruction of, by pelagic sealing 356 



easily distinguished 227 



examination of skins 402 



excess over females 161, 195 



few taken in pelagic sealing 231, 256, 257, 277, 



282, 284, 289, 290, 291, 295, 296, 301, 303, 310, 313, 315, 320, 395, 405, 494 



ferocity of 70 



first to enter Bering Sea 70, 422 



habits 6, 7, 21, 25 



numbers sufficient for breeeding 71, 75, 94, 97, 104, 109, 135, 142, 146, 151, 181 



polygamous 135 



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