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December 4. — No seals remain on Lagoon. 



December 11. — A food drive was made from Zapadni. It was two days in reaching 

 the village. Six seals perished on the way. The drive yielded 240 skins. 



1890". 



January 22, — Four hundred seals are reported hauled up under Hutchinson Hill. 

 Natives were sent to secure them. 



January 26. — Two hundred and one seals were killed at Northeast Point. 



January 27. — Natives sent in boats to Sea Lion Eock, succeeded in killing ISO 

 seals. 



April 28. — The first bull of the year hauled out at Tolstoi Eookery to-day. 



April 29. — Three bulls hauled out at Zapadni. 



April 30. — One bull is on Sea Lion Eock. 



May 6. — Ten bulls are on Zapadni and 6 on Eeef Point. 



May 7. — Three bulls hauled out on Lagoon. 



May 9. — Eighteen bulls are on Zapadni. 



May 10. — One hundred bulls are reported at Northeast Point; a large number in 

 the water. 



May 12. — Six bulls are hauled out at Halfway Point. 



May 14. — Fifty bachelor seals are reported hauled out on Sea Lion Eock. 



May 21. — The first killing for food was made on Sea Lion Eock, 131 seals. 



June 15. — Mr, Goff made an examination of the Eeef, comparing its conditions 

 with those of the same date last year. He found more bulls and a better class, i. e., 

 uniformly larger and covering more ground. The bachelors on the extreme point are 

 not as numerous as a year ago. 



June 6. — The north end and middle part of Lukanin show fully as many seals in 

 sight as last year; while the western end does not make so good a showing. 



June 10. — The first cow arrived on the Eeef on the 5th. The first pup was born 

 to-day. 



June 11. — The first drive for the quota was made from the Eeef, yielding 574 skins. 



June 18. — A drive from Middle Hill and Tolstoi yielded 274 skins. Nineteen 

 half-grown bulls were turned away. As many yearlings as seals killed, and half as 

 many 2-year-olds, were allowed to return to the water. These figures constitute a 

 fair average for the work of the season thus far; the bulls actually counted; the 

 others are a close estimate. 



June 23. — At a drive from Middle Hill and Tolstoi 521 were killed. Seventy-five 

 per cent of the seals driven to the village were turned back into the sea, 10 per cent 

 being 2-year-olds and the balance yearlings. 



June 24. — Of the drive from Eeef and Zoltoi 426 seals were killed. About 65 

 per centof the drive was turned back into the sea, about all being yearlings. 



June 26. — From the drive at Southwest Bay 117 were killed; 65 per cent were 

 rejected. Of those turned away half were yearlings, one-fourth 2-year-olds, and the 

 rest old bulls. 



Jane 28.— A drive of 1,417 seals was made from Eeef— 206 were killed; 1,211 were 

 turned back. At Northeast Point 79 seals were killed out of a drive of 2,000. 



June 30.— A drive from English Bay, Middle Hill, and Tolstoi yielded 209 skins; 

 83 per cent of the drive was rejected. 



