GLINKA ROOKERIES, 1895, 147 



showed many of the characteristic features that I knew so well, and yet it was only 

 the shadow of the old rookery. The line running backward up the gully was there, but 

 it was very thin and narrow and broken in places. A comparison of my old sketch 

 (pi. 52), taken at high water, with my recent photograph from the identical stand- 

 point, low water (pi. 51)^ will give some idea of the difference I saw. Although taken 

 from a point somewhat different from mine, Colonel Voloshinof 's photograph of Palata 

 as it looked in, 1885 (pi. 53a) fully bears out my sketch, when it is remembered that 

 he was standing several hundred feet lower to the right and that consequently the 

 solid belt of seals at the base of Palata must look so much narrower on his picture 

 than on mine. My other photographs (pis. 48, 49), looking toward Palata and Sabatcha 

 Dira from the outlying rocks off the former, serve to more fully illustrate the discon- 

 nected and thin character of the breeding grounds in 1895. 



And as with Palata, so with Zapalata. The change was less striking, though by 

 no means less radical. On the contrary, Zapalata, in proportion, was even more 

 deserted. It is a source of great satisfaction to me that in photographing this rookery 

 I happened to place my camera on the exact spot where Colonel Voloshinof ten years 

 previously had exposed a plate, and although it evidently met with some mishap, 

 so that this picture is one of the less satisfactory ones, I have reproduced the two 

 (pis. 56 and 57a). On the whole light beach my photograph shows nothing but stones, 

 ■while the same area in Voloshinof's is teeming with thousands of breeding seals. By 

 turning my camera in the opposite direction, I obtained the other picture (pi. 55), 

 showing the same depleted condition. 



To complete the series of photographs illustrating the condition of the various 

 parts of the rookery, 1 finally reproduced one by Mr. Grebnitski, taken from the rocks 

 in Sikatchinskaya Bukhta August 3, as I had no opportunity to photograph it myself. 

 It tells the same story (576). 



The total number of skins shipped from Glinka in 1895 was 4,809 (including a few 

 hundreds of the autumn catch of 1894), a trifle more than one-half the catch of the 

 previous year. 



In view of the great number of half-bulls and bulls it is interesting to note that 

 the skins both from Karabelni and from Glinka were unusually small. No regular 

 tally of the weight of the entire catch was kept on Copper Island, but upon our arrival 

 there was a great complaint of the lightness of the skins. During my stay at Glinka, 

 from August 2 to 11, the natives were unable to take more than one small drive, in 

 spite of their anxiety to make more money and to obtain more fresh meat. The skins 

 of this drive were weighed according to Mr. Grebnitski's directions, who himself kept 

 tally. The weight of the skins was noted to the half pound, but to simplify the list 

 and make it easily comparable with the corresponding ones upon Bering Island I only 

 recorded whole pounds; a skin weighing 7 J pounds, for instance, I counted as 8 

 pounds, while 7i pounds was recorded as 7. Mr. Grebnitski's tally and my tally will 

 differ to that extent, but the average will undoubtedly be very nearly the same. This 

 average, it will be seen, is scarcely 7| pounds. When I visited Copper Island in 1883 

 the company refused every skin under 8 pounds. 



