380 



INDEX. 



Rooks, Sea-otter 249 



Ehyncolophus elongatns 348 



Eobben Island : 



administration 72 



anchorage : 67 



arrival of seals 79 



barracks 79 



birds 68 



"cleanedoiit" 73,74 



climate 68 



dead pups 80 



disco very 72 



guard 72 



history 72 



insects 68 



killing grounds 79 



lease 72 



number of seals 71,80 



plants 67 



protection 81 



raids 74-78,230 



seals killed 78,81,127,230 



skins taken by lessees 78 



Bobbin Island 66 



Robin Island 66 



Rookeries : 



Commander Islands — 



alleged occnrrence on Kamchatka. 82, 108 

 Glinka .... 59, 62, 145, 147, 155, 160, 168, 218 



Karabelni 59, 



60, 62, 143, 144, 145, 146, 151, 153, 218 

 Korabelnoye (see Karabelni). 



North 54,55, 



56, 136, 137, 141, 158, 164, 165, 169, 218 



Palata 62,65,145,156 



Reef 56,142,150,161,218 



South 56,142,150,161,218 



Zapalata 64 



Knril Islands 246 



Okhotsk Sea ' 83 



Pribilofs 218 



Robben Island 80 



St. lona Island 81 



Comparison between Bering and Copper 



islands 148 



Condition: 



in 1882-83 136, 142, 143, 145 



in 1895 136, 137, 142, 144, 146, 221, 229 



in 1896 149, 150, 151, 156, 158 



in 1897 163,168 



difficulty of counting seals 151 



increase 126 



rules 133 



search for new 83 



stability of general outlines 87, 138 



Page. 



Rose, J.N 34,352 



Rose, schooner 76, 77, 82, 259 



Rosie Olsen, schooner 191, 197 



loss of 199 



seizure of 192,193 



Rosie Sparks, schooner 198 



Rossett, Lieutenant 71 



Ross's Gull 30 



Rubus chamsemorus . . -■ 35, 357 



stellatus 357 



Rules for rookeries 132 



Russian-American Company 15, 



36, 73, 84, 115, 116, 117, 124, 125, 129, 130, 131 



Russian-British agreement of May, 1893 194 



modus Vivendi 112 



Russian : 



commission to investigate seizures 193 



notice to poachers 188 



sealing industry 114 



Russian Seal-Skin Company 14 



lease 120 



Eusskoye Tovarishtchestvo Kotikovikh Pro- 



mislof 120 



Rytinagigas 28 



Sabatcha Dira 63, 65 



Sadie Turpel, schooner 191, 



195, 197, 199, 201, 202, 270, 271 



log of 212,319 



Saghalien, schooner: 



raid on Bering Island 189 



seizure of 189 



Sahlberg, John 31 



Saipan, schooner 78 



Sakhalin Island 66,75 



Salix 35 



crassijulis ...: 355 



diplodyctya 355 



Salmon : 



capture of 44 



dried and salted 45 



not eaten by seals 95 



Salt house : 



Glinka 64,66 



Karabelni 61 



North Rookery 56 



Pestshani 65 



Eobben Island 67 



South rookery 59 



San Diego. See City of San Diego." 



Sandman, Captain 67, 75, 82, 108, 1 18, 252 



Sandman-Grebnitski map 137 



Sandpiper, spoonbill 30 



Sandy Cape 63 



Sapphire, schooner 195 



log of 210 



