FUR-SEAL INDUSTBY OF THE COMMANDER ISLANDS 311 
Suvorof's table of seals on the Commander Islands rookeries about the middle of August (new style), 1910 
Rookery 
Half 
DUllS 
Bulls 
Blrick 
pUftS 
KjKJ r r Ejix ioijAiN u 
Glinka rookeries: 
1 
-.7 
8 
3 
6 
20 
50 
570 
1, 350 
550 
600 
1, 250 
1 700 
25 
500 
1, 200 
500 
5.50 
1, 100 
Siskatchinskoye (Vodopad) 
Unli - 
200 
150 
200 
124 
Karabelnoye rookery: 
3 
Total - - - 
48 
5,420 
' 4,200 
: BERING ISLAND 
North Rookery: 
Reef-- - -- - - 
1 
2 
5 
2 
1,800 
150 
250 
200 
' 1,600 
1,400 
130 
220 
160 
Orlof Kamen .-- --- -- 
Sivutchi Kamen 
Kishotchnoye -- -. 
In water near rookery --. - 
Total - --- 
1 
16 
4,000 
' 2,000 
Total (both islands) — 
1 
64 
9, 420 
6,200 
' Partly bachelors. 
' These figures are those given by Suvorof; the actual summation gives 4,199 and 1,910, respectively. 
' Approximate. 
The corresponding totals of the watchmen are given as follows : 
Cows 
Copper Island 7, 070 
Bering Island . - . - 4, 120 
". I I Both islands 11,190 8,305 
- » J 
It is not easy to sec how ho has arrived at these figures and how he applied 
the correction coefficient," as it appears from his tables that his own estimate on 
Copper Island differs much more from that of the Copper Island guards than the 
accepte^ figures for Bering Island do from those of the Bering Island guards. How- 
ever, miich as this census probably differs from the actual figures, it is a sufficiently 
eloquent demonstration of the terrible straits to which the Commander Islands 
rookeries had been reduced by 1910. If we add to this that afterwards during the 
same year 1,580 more cows and 208 bachelors were killed and imagine the number 
of black pups that must have starved to death, as their mothers were killed both 
on land and at sea, we get a vivid picture of the conditions that existed at the close 
of the season of 1910. To complete the picture of destruction it should be realized 
that bec^ause of the decreasing number of male seals taken, the natives were allowed 
to kill gray pups in the fall for food. The number of gray pups thus killed in the 
three years preceding 1910 averaged 860. How many of these were females it is 
not possible to say. «• ' -> 
Suvorof's figures receive additional confirmation by his maps. These are 
only diagrammatic representations on small-scale copies of the rookery maps pub- 
Black pups 
5, 755 
2, 550 
•« Altogether in 1910 there were killed on the Commander Islands 2,597 cows and 708 bachelors; of these 1,017 cows and 500 
bachelors had been killed before the census was taken. 
