224 DESCRIPTION OF BERING ISLAND 



this chase they pay close attention to ebb and flood tide and as to 

 whether the wind blows toward the land. In favorable weather 

 they run so far out on the ice that they lose sight of land; indeed 

 [they run] across the channel between the first two Kurile 

 Islands.124 



But I return to the sea animals which I had the best oppor- 

 tunity to observe on Bering Island. 



[The Sea Lion and the Fur Seal] 125 

 The sea lion and the sea bear [fur seal], the most formidable 

 of the marine animals there, have been dealt with in detail in 

 my above-mentioned treatise. Sea lions ^^e occur indeed at all 

 times of the year and during the winter in lesser numbers on the 

 steepest rock shores of the island, but the real migration comes 

 in the spring at the same time as [that of] the sea bear or some- 

 what later. 



Our men killed the first sea bear^" q^ April 18 and another 

 on the 19th. Each, including fat and meat, weighed at least 

 20 poods (800 Russian pounds). It was a great consolation to 



124 The northernmost, i.e. Shumshu and Paramushir (see Vol. i, PI. I, 

 where they are spelled somewhat differently) . 



125 The first and last paragraphs of this section do not occur in the MS 

 and may have been added by Pallas. The long second paragraph, on 

 the fur seal, is on fols. 88 and 89 of the MS, at the point where, in Pallas' 

 version of the journal, occur the words "on April 18 and 19, namely, 

 two sea bears were killed" (above, p. 176). The first two sentences of 

 the third paragraph occur soon after in the MS at the point indicated 

 by footnote 420, above. The rest of the paragraph seems to have been 

 derived from some other source. 



The sections on the sea lion and on the fur seal in "De bestiis marinis" 

 are respectively on pp. 360-366 and 331-359; German edition, pp. 152- 

 161 and 107-151. Pages 361-366 and 346-359 are included in the English 

 translation, on pp. 208-210 and 201-208. 



126 On the sea lion see, above, footnotes 129 and 422. 



127 i.e. fur seal, Callotaria ursina (Linnaeus). An exhaustive account 

 of this animal was given by David Starr Jordan and associates in "The 

 Fur Seals and Fur Seal Islands of the North Pacific Ocean," 4 vols.. 

 Treasury Dept., Washington, 1 898-1 899. A supplementary report on 

 the fur seals of the Pribilof Islands was published in Bull. Bur. of Fish- 

 eries, Vol. 34. 1914. by W. H. Osgood, E. A. Preble, and G. H. Parker. (S) 



