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side of tlie “ Stolp,” conies Bolshaya Bulchta, as tlie name indicates, the largest of these 
bays, followed by three small ones, viz, KStaritchlcovaya, Balnaya, and Nerpitcha. In 
Bolshaya Bakhta the hauling-ground is mostly coarse gravel with water-worn stones, 
uj) to the size of a fist, strewn over the surface and here and there with large bowlders 
which have fallen down from the overhanging cliffs. The grounds of the bays to the 
eastward, on the other hand, are stony reefs of the stratified rock of which Copper 
Island is mainly built up. 
N~erpitvha Bulchta is easily recognized by a graceful waterfall, which overleaps 
the bluff in a fall more than 200 feet high. It must not be confounded with another 
waterfall, yet to be described, which forms the characteristic feature of the hauling- 
ground specifically named Vodopad. 
Beyond Nerpitcha the bluffs again rise so abruptly as to allow no jiassage along the 
beach beneath them; hence the name of this projecting bluff — Nepropuslc. Between 
this point and the next a long rocky reef represents the beach; but the bluffs become 
gradually lower toward the middle, where a little creek has cut a V-shaped valley and 
falls over the comparatively low escarpment in a beautiful cascade 65 feet high (pi. 45). 
From this waterfall the part of the beach between these i)oints is named Vodopad and 
the cape terminating it to the east Vodopadsld Mys. 
This Vodopadski Cape, with its outlying rocks, is the extreme southern point on 
this part of the coast. It is the promontory seen farthest to the southeast from all 
points of the coast to the north of it and farthest to the northwest from all points 
south of it, although it projects but very slightly beyond a line through the westernmost 
of these poijits. 
From Vodopadski Mys the coast trends a little northward again, being similar in 
character — viz, a narrow reefy and I'ocky beach at the foot of the steep bluffs. It is 
followed by a slight indentation, from which the ascent is so steep and difficult that 
it has leceived the name Krephaya Bad (the hard valley). It is followed farther east 
by another Neprop^islc. Beyond this, a narrow strip of beach is called MalinJca 
Bulchta, the '‘bay” being chietly due to the projecting reefs at both ends. It is the 
last beach upon which seals have reyularly hauled up at Karabelni, and is called the 
“little bay,” in contradistinction to the large bay immediately to the east, which is 
often called Bolshaya Bukhta instead of Serodlca — a practice to be discouraged, as it 
gives rise to confusion with the hauling-ground adjoining the Stolp. 
A glance at the accompanying maj) (pi. 11) and tlie pliotographs of this rookery 
(pis. 38 to 40) will show how exceedingly difficult the taking of the skins must be. The 
bachelors are chiefly driven from the hauling-grounds at Karabelni Stolp, Vodopad, 
and formerly Krepkaya Pad and Malinka Bukhta. 
From the Stolp the seals are driven northward along the beach of Martishina 
Bukhta beyond the promontory, which can only be passed by low water, on to the 
beach of the rather wide and gently curving Stolhovaya Bulchta. If the number of 
seals is so insignificant that the skins can be easily carried on the back and the meat 
is not wanted in Karabelni village, then they are driven across the little rivulet which 
here runs into the sea and are killed on the beach just west of it. The carcasses are 
left at the water’s edge for the waves to carry off. 
The driveivay to Karabelni over the mountains is a long and very hard one, being 
fully 2^ miles long. 
In order to facilitate the ascent up the coast escarpment a stairway has been built 
