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1884. 



January 11. — A few hundred seals are on Sea Lion Eock. 



January 12. — A few large seals are hauled out on the beach at the end of the 

 island. 



January 20. — The seals have left Northeast Point and Sea Lion Eock. 



March 6.— Orders were given to shoot or house all hogs which had become a 

 nuisance and had been visiting Zoltoi, Eeef, and Nah Speel, driving the seals into the 

 water, 



Aiiril 26. — The first fur seal of the season was seen to-day. 



April 30. — The large seals have hauled out at Southwest Bay; two at Tolstoi, 

 and many in the water about English Bay. 



May 2. — The large male seals are beginning to haul out on the rookeries. Several 

 are already on the extreme south end of the Eeef rookery, and quite a large number 

 in the water. 



May 3. — Two bulls are on Lukanin. 



May 11. — Bulls are reported by the natives on all the rookeries. The first on 

 Warehouse Point came last night. A few bachelor seals are hauled out at Southwest 

 Bay and a few are in the water near the point of the Eeef. 



May 15. — "Killers" are quite numerous. 



May 21. — Drives for food were made from Halfway Point and Eeef; 187 killed. 

 "Killers" drove a shark (?) on shore at Halfway Point. 



June 3, — A drive was made from the Eeef and 318 killed. 



July 21.— A drive from Middle Hall, Kitoyi, Zoltoi, yielded 1,911. This killing 

 closed the season. The total number killed was 88,995, of which 85,000 were accepted 

 by the company.^ 



July 29. — Eight hundred seal skins are yet to be taken on St. George to complete 

 the quota of 15,000 for that island. 



August 26.^The number of large seals in the food drive to-day was unusually 

 small. In a drove of 2,000 only 57 were killed, the skins of which were accepted. 

 The state of affairs is very different from previous years and difficult to account for.'' 



November 5. — Since the 3d, 2,731 pups have been killed for winter food. 



December 31. — The weather is unusually mild. The seals have nearly all gone. 

 Those remaining are at Southwest Bay, Eeef, and Sea Lion Eock. 



1885. 

 April 27. — The first seal seen this season is hauled out at Southwest Bay. 

 KECORD KEPT BV G. R. TINGLE. 



June 3. — A drive (place not stated) was made and 49 seals killed. 

 June 19. — A drive from Lukanin and Halfway Point yielded 1,307 skins. The 

 natives found an albino pup; it was dead, having been bitten in the head. 



' The securing of this quota shows that a more normal condition of the hauling grounds existed 

 in this season. One can not help noting in passing the rejection here implied of nearly 4,000 skins in 

 skins in a quota of 85,000; or at $3 a skin, a loss of $12,000. 



' Here we begin to see the actual scarcity of bachelor seals resulting from the diminished birth 

 rate of 1880 and 1881, when the pelagic catch exceeded 15,000 as against a normal catch of 5,000 in the 

 ten years previous. 



