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THE FUR SEALS OF THE PEIBILOF ISLANDS. 



forced into the water, his nose bleeding profusely. The seal's nose in his weak spot. 

 A slight blow there produces great discomfiture for the time being. 



Numerous escaping seals showed bloody marks, but it was blood from the noses 

 of their dead companions. Several were seen to be struck accidentally with the clubs. 

 But the number did not exceed a dozen in a killing of over 1,600, and aside from those 

 instances noted none of the injuries were serious. A seal too old to kill was seen in 

 one of the escaping batches having a blind eye, evidently one of the "moon-eyes" 

 referred to by Elliott. His blindness did not impair his ability to fight, and the fact 

 that he could not see on one side of his head enabled him to very effectively stampede 

 the clubbers. 



The drive from Lukanin showed a marked excess of yearlings. In the earlier 

 drives these yearlings do not appear, and in the later drives Lukanin sends in an 

 overwhelming majority of them. 



The following is a tally of a number of typical pods of escaping seals, distinguishing 

 between large and small. The large ones were half bulls over 4 years of age; the 

 small ones were mostly yearlings with some 2-yearolds. 



A number of pods from Zoltoi ran as follows : 



A number from the Lukanin, as follows : 



Beyond this point it could not be clearly distinguished from what point the 

 particular pods were drawn, as they had all been turned into the lake to cool and had 

 become mixed. But it is safe to say that when the pods got to running again, as 

 below, they were from Lukanin : 



These specimen pods will be sufficient to show the general proportion of those 

 rejected on the killing grounds. There were rejected 1,008 big and 1,177 little seals; 

 1,630 all told were killed. The total drive therefore numbered 3,815 animals. These 

 were driven up without the loss of a single one, as an examination of the driveway 

 showed. 



