SUBJECT-INDEX. 611 



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Commander and Robben Islands, hauling up 12 



herd 4, 78, 197, 215 



rookeries 197, 404 



Cook's Inlet, Barren Island, off 219 



hair seal rookery on 228 



seals off 217, 229 



when seals appear 223, 224, 225 



rookeries none 227, 230 



Coos Bay, seals at 231 



Copper island, catch ISG, 328, 548, 556, 570 



driving- on 56 



rookeries ou 196 



Cows, arrival of 25, 66, 81, 129, 133, 148, 422 



bear pups at 2 years 519 



description of.' 519, 548 



feeding 1, 2, 21, 34, 39, 83, 103, 108, 129, 139, 140, 



143, 144, 148, 158, 160, 180, 189, 208, 242, 355, 359, 363, 367, 371, 374, 400, 408, 410, 

 416, 420, 438, 444, 446, 448, 449, 451, 458, 461, 464, 471, 473, 475, 490, 503, 505, 506 



habits of 21, 131 



increase of 7, 151, 199 



instructions not to kill 103 



natives do not kill 90 



not killed on islands 108, 128, 131, 133, 139, 149 



nursing of pups 5, 33, 41, 62, 71, 89, 104, 110, 130, 133, 148, 375, 450 



l^regnant or witli pup mostlv taken in pelagic sealing 39, 100, 139, 



140, 146, 189, 211, 241, 243," 258, 261, 262, 264, 265, 266, 268, 269, 272, 273,278, 

 279, 282, 287, 291, 293, 310, 342, 344, 345, 346, 347, 348, 349, 350, 356, 357, 364, 

 365, 367, 368, 369, 374, 377, 379, 380, 382, 383, 384, 385, 387, 388, 389, 391, 394, 

 395, 396, 397, 398, 400, 420, 445, 446, 448, 450, 453, 456, 457, 458, 460, 461, 463, 

 464, 465, 466, 468, 469, 470, 471, 474, 476, 477, 478, 479, 480, 482, 483, 486, 488, 489, 

 490, 502, 507, 508, 511, 512, 513, 516, 519, 520, 521, 522, 524, 527, 533, 534, 561, 588 



protection of, by Alaska Commercial Compauy 86 



skins not so good as those of males 590 



Crozett Islands 541 



Dead pups. ((See Pups.) 

 Decrease of seal life. {See Seals.) 



Disenchantment Bay, no seals in 238, 244 



Dixon's Entrance, arrival of seals at 298 



sealing in 277, 280, 281, 284, 287, 293, 294 



sea-otter in 303 



Dressing and dyeing of skins 552, 563, 568 



Driving, American, better than Russian 99, 142 



and redri ving 1, 2, 38, 49, 64, 72, 82, 137, 145, 159, 161, 182, 196, 199 



killing 72, 105, 110, 111, 198 



cautiously conducted. . . . 91, 97, 99, 104, 107, 129, 131, 133, 145, 155, 157, 181, 414 



methods employed 21, 54, 55, 68, 89, 182 



on Copper Island 56 



St. Paul Island 150 



Elliott, Prof. H. W., report, 1874, on increase 93 



Extermination of seals. {See Seals.) 



Fair-weather ground, sealing off 221 



Falkland Islands, sealskins from 551, 593 



Farallon Islands, sealing olf 241, 319 



Feeding grounds of cows. {See Seals.) 

 Female seals {See Cows.) 



Finners defined 355 



Firearms. (jSee Weai^ons.) 



Flag, change of 343,420 



Flipperers defined 56 



Fog about islands 11, 99 



Food of seals 6, 101, 161, 355 



Fort Kenai (Cooks Inlet) 228 



Four Mountain Pass, seals at 211 



Fur-seal. {See Seals.) 



Galapagos Island, sealing off 472, 515 



Garbotch, rookery 13,415 



Georgia Island, sealing off 324 



Gough Island 596 



Gray's Harbor, sealing off 317 



