TODOMOSIEI. 
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It is noticed by La Perouse under the name 
of Cape Guibert, on the mainland of Yesso. On 
the east side the island is sloping and fertile, but on 
the west side it is bold and hiced with reefs and 
sunken rocks. 
Here w'c found very extensive but now deserted 
fishing sheds for the curing of salmon. Ainos and 
Japanese were living in neat little houses, with 
patches of cultivated vegetables growing all around 
them. 
There is no place where one can have better 
opportunities of seeing seals in the privacy of 
domestic life, living unmolested in their island 
home, than Todomosiri, in the Gulf of Tartary. 
As, however, that little sjDot is a very long way off, 
and very few are able to visit it, I will endeavour 
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to give some idea of the vild scenes in those out- 
of-the-way places where whalers put in for water, 
and take the opportunity of knocking on the head 
a few hundred seals to complete their cargo. 
The small barren island called Monneron by La 
Perouse, and Todomosiri, or Seal ‘Island, by the 
