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young 2-year-olds, are much less able to withstand the pressure and buffeting of the 

 drive than the bachelors, and they are often detected by their distressed appearance as 

 compared with the males. The presence of cows in the drives has evidently been 

 regarded as a matter of seriousness in past years, for it is noted with considerable 

 regularity in the agents' daily journal or "log." The records are far from complete, 

 but the following compilation of them made by naturalist W. L. Hahn is of considerable 

 interest : 



Extracts from St. Paul log regarding cows in drives. 

 1879. (?) 



October 29, first drive of pups was made from Lukanin, among them many females. Orders were 

 given to examine each separately before it was killed. The Government agent believed that formerly 

 pups had been selected on account of size — not sex. 



August 28, 2 females killed by accident. 



October 7, 2 females killed by accident. 



October 20, 10 females killed by accident. 



November 13, in a food drive it was found that several — probably 8 or 10 — female seals had been 

 killed by accident. 



1897. 



November 12, 2 cows were accidentally killed in a drive. 



1902. 



July 24, 13 cows appeared in a drive at Zapadni. 



July 29, 6 cows in a drive from Zapadni. 



August 9, 18 large and 701 small seals were dismissed from a drive, a large part of them being cows. 



1903. 



July 24, I cow dismissed from drive from Zapadni. 

 July 27, 2 cows dismissed from drive at N. E. Pt. 

 July 29, I cow dismissed from drive from Tolstoi. 

 July 30, 2 cows dismissed from drive from Reef. 

 July 31, ig cows dismissed from drive from N. E. Pt 



1904. 



July I, 3 yearlings (?) appeared in the drive at N. E. Pt. A large one was knocked down and proved 

 to be a female. It weighed 34 pounds before it was stuck, and the skin weighed ^il-i pounds. 



August 9, 25 cows appeared in a drive from Reef and Gorbatch. A pronounced falling off in the 

 number of cows appearing in drives is noted this summer. 



1905. 



June 23, 32 pregnant cows were dismissed from a drive of about 600 seals at N. E. Pt. 



June 30, 8 cows were dismissed from a drive at N. E. Pt. 



July 26, 17 cows were dismissed from a drive at N. E. Pt. 



July 28, 75 cows were dismissed from a drive from Zapadni. 



July 31, 32 cows were dismissed from drive from Reef. 



August 10, 97 cows were dismissed from food drive from Reef. 



' 1906. 



July 28, 4 cows were dismissed from drive from Polovina. 



1907. 

 October 31, 40 pups and 116 cows appeared in a food drive from Reef Rookery. 



