92 INVESTIGATION OF THE FUR-SEAL INDUSTRY OF ALASKA. 



a few 3-year-olds added to these; but the great bulk of yearlings, 

 with two or three 6 or 7 year old bulls, and four or five 6-year-old 

 bulls and rough 5-year-olds, making the exhibit which we have just 

 estimated. 



We find from station F to station X that the fife of 1890 has com- 

 pletely disappeared; not a harem or an idle bull, or any vestige 

 of that life remaining. From station X we proceed over the circuit 

 of the survey of 1890 ending at station A. Passing along here we 

 find three harems, with about 25 cows only. We also find here one 

 big bull sea lion. 



We now proceed from this station to the finish at station A, where 

 a thin fringe of the life of 1890 is represented by 6 bulls and about 130 

 cows, chiefly massed around one bull. We also find here, just be- 



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yond, two additional bulls and about 150 cows, one of the bulls being 

 an idle 6-year-old bull, again beyond. There are no polsecatchie in 

 sight, and no other idle bulls. 



We now proceed to the finish at station A, and we find there, 

 directly on it, some 320 cows, chiefly massed around 4 bulls, one 

 being a 6-year-old; no polsecatchie; no idle bulls; no sign of other 

 6-year-olds, or any other males in sight. 



This closes our review of the Great .Eastern Rookery; from this 

 point we proceed to take up the 1890 survey of the Little East 

 Rookery. We find from station B to station A of the 1890 survey 

 a total elimination of all life, save two harems — one of about 25 

 cows and the other of 3 or 4; no polsecatchie in the sea nor at the 

 rear; no idle bulls; no holluschickie on the ground; but grass and 



