APPENDIX I. 
STATISTICS PERTINENT TO THE PRECEDING DISCUSSION. 
TABLE OF DAILY KILLINGS OF FUR SEALS FOR ALL PURPOSES ON THE PRIBILOF 
ISLANDS FOR THE YEARS 1875, 1880, 1886, AND 1889 TO 1897, INCLUSIVE. 
INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 
The complete table of daily killings for the period 1870 to 1889, prepared by Col. 
Joseph Murray, having been published in Senate Doc. No. 137, Seal Life, Part I, 1896, 
and recently republished in “Seal and Salmon Fisheries and General Resources of 
Alaska,” House Doc. No. 92, 1898, it has not seemed necessary to repeat it in full here. 
From this table we have taken the record for the years 1875, 1880, 1886, and 1889. 
The first of these years is intended to illustrate the normal driving in the period of 
equilibrium during the years 1871 to 1880. The record of the year 1880 is given to 
show that no radical change had yet occurred. With it is contrasted the record of 
1886, when, the killable seals became scarce through the decline of the breeding herd, 
and it was necessary to multiply the drives and hauling grounds driven from to 
secure the necessary quota of skins. The record of 1889 is introduced to form a 
contrast to that of 1890. The driving in neither year shows normal conditions. The 
record for 1890 and following is a continuation of Colonel Murray’s set of tables, 
taken from the official records of the islands. In the names of the rookeries we have 
used the spelling adopted in the present report. 
ST. PAUL ISLAND, 1875. 
Total * Total 
Date. Rookery. males Date. Rookery. males 
killed. killed. 
. 
6 1,201 
9 1 203 
16 5 692 
498 7 | Zoltoi and Reef .. 711 
9 7 | Southwest Bay .. -| 1,560 
20 7 | Northeast Point .......-...- 27 
143 10 | English Bay, Southwest 
657 Bay, Tolstoi .........-...- 1, 456 
492 12 | Reef and Zoltoi ............. 631 
1 Seals taken in this and subsequent years ries to June 1, when the regular sealing season began, were for natives’ 
food. Such of the skins as were of suitable grade were accepted and became a part of the regular quota. 
2 Where, as in this initial drive of the season, two or more names are joined, it means that adjacent or convenient 
hauling«grounds were united in a single drive. Thus Zoltoi is always driven with Reet, because the route of the longer 
drive crosses Zoltoi hauling ground. In like manner Tolstoi, Middle Hill, and English Bay are so situated as to be 
conveniently driven together. 197 
