TOTAL SEALS KILLED, 1892-1897. 



203 



It will be seeu that the known pelagic " Asiatic catch" from 1892-97 was about 

 295,000 skins. Allowing 8,000 skins for the Kurils and Tiuleni, the Tcnown loss in that 

 period to the Commander Islands herd was about 287,000 seals, apart from the loss of 

 wounded ones, etc. The number of seals killed on the islands in the same period was 

 119,708. The pelagic catch was therefore considerably more than twice as large as 

 that on the islands, while the loss to the herd from that cause was much greater, due 

 to starved pups and seals shot but not secured. It is certainly no exaggeration to 

 say that the actual loss to the herd in those six years has averaged 100,000 a year, more 

 than one-half of which were females, while even in the palmiest days of exclusive land 

 sealing the loss only averaged 50,000 seals a year, all males. 



EXTRACTS OF SEALING LOGS. 



Catch of seal skins on \>owrd of British schooner Vnibrina, 



Bate. 



Latitude. 



Longitude. 



Kemarks. 



Daily 

 catciL. 



Totals. 



July 20 



26 



27 



28 



Aug. 1 



2 



3 



4 



5 



6 



7 



10 



11 



12 



16 



17 



18 



19 



21 



24 



60 N. 

 SON. 

 401f. 

 40 N. 

 SON. 

 40 N. 

 30 F. 

 40 N. 

 30 IT. 

 40 N. 



34 N. 

 40 N. 

 45 N. 

 55 N. 

 ION. 

 40 N. 

 47 N. 

 40 N. 

 55 N. 

 55 N. 

 SON. 

 40 N. 



35 N. 

 35 N. 

 50 N. 

 00 N. 

 50 N. 

 00 N. 

 35 N. 

 30 N. 



167 30 E. 



167 30 B. 



167 10 E. 



166 40 E. 



167 00 E. 

 166 30 E. 

 166 25 E. 

 166 50 E. 

 166 50 E. 

 166 55 E. 

 166 40 E. 

 165 30 E. 

 165 10 E. 

 165 10 E. 



165 30 E. 



166 30 E. 

 166 40 E. 



166 50 E. 



167 00 E. 

 166 50 E. 

 166 45 E. 

 166 40 E. 

 166 35 E. 

 166 45 E. 

 166 35 E. 

 166 35 E. 

 166 30 E. 

 166 36 E. 

 166 30 E. 

 166 40 E. 



Killed from BChooner. 



do 



do 



Boats out all day 



Killed from sdiooner. 

 iiilled from schooner . 



Killed from schooner. 



Killed from schooner. 



Killed from schooner. 



do 



do 



do 



620 



855 

 856 

 857 

 874 

 880 

 951 

 1,019 

 1,046 

 1,049 

 1,059 

 1,097 

 1,132 

 1,204 

 1,260 

 1,270 

 1,271 

 1,276 

 1,277 

 1,285 

 1,306 

 1,331 

 1,332 

 1,347 

 1,402 

 1,404 

 1,466 

 1,467 

 1,468 

 1,470 

 1,478 



