64 THE ASIATIC FUR-SEAL ISLANDS. 



and several single ones of similar shape nearer the cape, as well as by two detached 

 dangerous rocks situated seaward in the direction of the reef, the outer one fully a 

 third of a mile from the cape. The bay between Peresheyek and this cape is called 

 Lehiazhaya Buklita, Swan Bay; hence the name of the cape. The beach is rocky and 

 stony. 



On the other side of Lebiazhi Mys the coast trends more northerly' and is visible 

 all the way to Vodopadski Mys, Karabelnoye rookery. But we are here only concerned 

 with the bay immediately behind Lebiazhi, as it is the last seal ground at this end of 

 the rookery. The character of the beach differs not from the seal ground preceding 

 It. Its name is Gorelaya Bukhta. 



Eeturning to Palata we notice that from the extreme point of Palatinski Mys the 

 coast trends more easterly. The abrupt walls of the clifls are even more precipitous, 

 and the beach, utterly inaccessible from the land side, is fringed by wide reefs 

 surjnounted by tall isolated rocks assuming the most fantastic shapes as pillars, 

 pinnacles, towers, etc. Projecting corners hem in snug little coves for the breeding 

 seals, while the outlying rocks and reefs break the force of the angry ocean and afford 

 shelter in quiet pools for the growing pups. 



The first of these coves, as the name Zwpalata (behind Palata) indicates, is 

 situated immediately under the perpendicular southern wall of Palata itself, and 

 guarded on the east side by the pillar-shaped Stolbi. The beach itself is narrow, but 

 smoothly covered with small stones rounded and polished by the water and of a very 

 ight pearl-gray color. This is possibly the most important of the breeding grounds, 

 and is accordingly named by Colonel Voloshinof " Glavnoye-Glinkovskoye Lezh- 

 bishtche" (Glinka main rookery). The name Zapalata, employed by the natives, 

 however, is much preferable, not only because in common use, but also on account of 

 its brevity and euphony (pis. 55, 56). 



Silcatohinslcaya follows on the other side of the "Stolbi" (pi. 576), possessing the 

 same main characteristics as Zapalata, merging eastward into GavarushJcaya Bukhta 

 (pl. 76). 



The end of the latter, or rather the beginning of the next bay, is marked off by a 

 solitary, conical rock rising up in the middle of the reef. It is called BaUn, and hence 

 the name of the beach beyond, Babmslcaya Bukhta, and the valley opening at this 

 Iilace several hundred feet above the beach, Bakinskaya Pad. The beach is covered 

 with the same water-polished, light-gray stones. This bay at its eastern end is blocked 

 , by a very rocky and rough reef, for which the natives only have an Aleut name 

 Kulomakh. This is the eastern end of the Glinka seal rookeries. (PI. 12.) 



The main killing grounds at this rookery are situated on the eastern side of the 

 island, where the village and the salt houses are located (pl. 78). Only of late years 

 when mauy drives have been so small that there were people (men, women, and children), 

 enough to carry the skins on their backs across the mountains, and the meat was not 

 wanted in the village for food, has it been the custom to kill the seals on the west side. 

 I have already remarked that the hauling grounds east of Palata are utterly 

 inaccessible from the land side. Formerly, when seals were plentiful, the bachelors 

 used to haul up in great numbers on some of these beaches, notably at Babinski, and 

 if the company's steamer, Aleksander II, happened to be at the island at a time when 

 the weather and the waves on the west side of the island allowed boats to laud there 

 it was customary for the steamer to take the people around the Southeast Cape and 



