i98 APPENDIX TO CASE OF GREAT BRITAIN. 
Arrival of Sealing Schooners from Behring’s Sea in 1887, as far as reported to October 
5, 1887. 
Arrived at— Name of Schooner. N ee of 
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Wo Ee SB aaa See one Depa ae ema ncaa tits. Penelope>.s: .2 32 Sa5. eee 1, 500 
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WSS Se Sees el eee eee Ame RAS, Fe ae he Lottie Fairfield =: -..---2--2- 2, 997 
SEE er Wot 2 ge. ical aha Co ee oe Ee ee ee Adele essere ees 1, 350 
pS eR ee cE cre Pe xia ou ab ce.boce See t aes Geese eee Haviorite .s<5 62d secaencsee 1, 887 
Oo COE eo ROR OE PR COM BOONES RISE At nena doscdcdae TONeshi-25<- no enemas tose oes 1, 246 
SEIMEI a cee caine «Stoo win = te alee meee Se ee eae ree Zi Whisk beep) eee ee Aon Sao or 480 
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BE ee Se hs ocd ae coe e.clde scaaisiam cat cam eens Meee eee ee Vanderbilt... 2tieeecte senses 1, 300 
17, 242 
Reeapitulation, as re coneryed up to October 5, 1887: 
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S)ohisel bhi (20 ER ARE eee AAS Ae SnOaSRAn or Smecsoc Cacodan Sadcoae bcrnp noo oOsOSaIODAoesOl 008 17, 242 - 
MOtalics cocecaes cs ans ciameacee (ccs seins seen eemeanicae seco eee eee saceneoc Saletan ate 29, 211 
179 {Inclosure 3 in No. 93.] 
Mr. Elliott to Mr. Bayard. 
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 
Washington, D., C., December 3, 1887. 
Sir: During the course of my extended studies of the fur-seal on its breeding and 
hanling erounds i in Behring’s Sea, I was led naturally into a very careful examina- 
tion of the subject of its protection and perpetuation. This investigation caused 
me to give much attention then to the effect which pelagic sealing would have upon 
the well-being and tie conservation of these anomalous and valuable interests of 
our Government as we view them upon the Pribyloff group. 
When preparing, in 1881, a final arrangement of my field notes and memoranda for 
publication in my Monograph of the Seal Islands of Alaska (10th Census U.S. A.), 
the late Professor Baird suggested that I omit the discussion of this theme of pelagic 
sealing, because it might serve to invite an attack which otherwise would never be 
made upon these preserves of our Government. 
This attack, however, has recently been made, and the thought occurs to me now 
that a brief epitome of my study of the effect which this plan of sealing will have 
upon the integrity and value of our fur-beariug interests in Behring’s Sea—that such 
a brief, yet accurate, statement will be of service to you. I therefore venture to 
present the following transcript. 
It is now well understood and unquestioned— 
1. That the fur-seal of Alaska is obliged to haul out annually upon the Pribyloff 
ae for the purpose of breeding and shedding its pelage. 
. That from the time of its de parture from these islands in the autumn of every 
y ear up to the time of its return to them in the following spring it lands nowhere 
else. 
3. That it arrives en masse upon these islands in June and July, and departs from 
them in October and November. 
4, That when leavi ing the isla nds in the fall it heads directly for, and rapidly passes 
out from Behring’s Sea ‘into, the waters of the North Pacific Ocean. Its paths of travel 
are bee-lines from the Pribyloff group to and through the numerous passes of the 
Aleutian Archipelago; the passes of Oonimak, Akootan, Oonalga, Oomnak, and the 
Four Mountains are most favoured by it. 
5. That it returns from the broad wastes of the North Pacific Ocean by these same 
paths of departure. 
Therefore, if you will glance at the Map of Alaska, you will observe that the con- 
vergence and divergence ‘of these watery paths of the fur-seal in Behring’s Sea to and 
from the Seal Islands resembles the spread of the spokes of a half-wheel—the Aleu- 
tian chain forms the felloe, while the hub into which these spokes enter is the small 
Pribyloti group. 
