28 
BULLETIN OF THE UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSION. 
Number of births and deaths on Commander Islands, 1868 to 1881. 
Year. 
Bering 
Island. 
Copper Island. 
Total, both 
islands. 
Births. 
Beatlis. 
Births. 
Deaths. 
Male. 
Fern. 
Total. 
Male. 
Fell). 
Total. 
Male. 
Feni. 
Total. 
Male. 
Fem. 
Total. 
Births. 
Deaths. 
1868 
2 
4 
6 
6 
9 
15 
0 
0 
0 
3 
1 
4 
6 
19 
1809 
4 
2 
6 
4 
13 
17 
2 
3 
5 
0 
0 
0 
11 
17 
1870 
9 
4 
13 
3 
7 
10 
3 
5 
8 
0 
2 
2 
21 
12 
1871 
5 
3 
8 
3 
1 
4 
2 
2 
4 
0 
0 
0 
12 
4 
1872 
7 
9 
16 
6 
4 
10 
3 
2 
5 
1 
0 
1 
21 
11 
1873 
7 
7 
14 
3 
0 
3 
2 
2 
4 
1 
3 
4 
18 
7 
1874 
8 
10 
18 
3 
3 
6 
6 
6 
12 
0 
5 
5 
30 
11 
1875 
5 
6 
11 
4 
6 
10 
2 
6 
8 
3 
2 
5 
19 
15 
1876 
8 
6 
14 
2 
2 
4 
5 
6 
11 
4 
2 
6 
25 
10 
1877 
10 
5 
15 
3 
8 
11 
4 
6 
10 
6 
1 
7 
25 
18 
1878.. 
6 
9 
15 
2 
5 
7 
5 
7 
12 
4 
0 
4 
27 
11 
1879 
11 
12 
23 
2 
5 
7 
3 
6 
9 
6 
4 
10 
32 
17 
1880 
6 
8 
14 
7 
7 
14 
7 
4 
11 
3 
2 
5 
25 
19 
1881 
7 
7 
14 
9 
3 
12 
6 
5 
11 
5 
5 
10 
25 
22 
Total .... 
95 
92 
187 
57 
73 
130 
50 
60 
110 
36 
27 
63 
297 
193 
Births and deaths on Commander Islands, according to months, from 1868 to 1881. 
Months 
Birtlis. 
Deaths. 
Bering Island. 
Copper Island. 
Both islands. 
Bering Island. 
Copper Island. 
Both i.slands. 
6 
3 
Female. 
Total. 
Male. 
6 
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PSH 
Total. 
Male. 
6 
O 
Ph 
Total. 
Male. 
Female. 
Total. 
Male. 
Female. 
Total. 
Male. 
Female. 
Total. 
January 
3 
12 
15 
3 
5 
8 
6 
17 
23 
4 
3 
7 
2 
0 
2 
6 
3 
9 
February 
5 
4 
9 
2 
6 
8 
7 
10 
17 
2 
3 
5 
1 
2 
3 
3 
5 
8 
March 
6 
3 
9 
6 
4 
10 
12 
7 
19 
2 
3 
5 
0 
2 
2 
2 
5 
7 
April 
3 
4 
7 
2 
8 
10 
5 
12 
17 
3 
1 
4 
2 
3 
5 
5 
4 
9 
Jlay 
7 
5 
12 
8 
3 
11 
15 
8 
23 
6 
4 
10 
0 
1 
1 
6 
5 
11 
J une 
7 
9 
16 
4 
4 
8 
11 
13 
24 
1 
17 
18 
1 
5 
6 
2 
22 
24 
.Inly 
4 
7 
11 
3 
4 
7 
7 
11 
18 
2 
4 
6 
3 
0 
3 
5 
4 
9 
August 
6 
8 
14 
2 
0 
2 
8 
8 
16 
5 
9 
14 
8 
2 
10 
13 
11 
24 
Septeniher 
10 
9 
19 
5 
3 
8 
15 
12 
27 
7 
5 
12 
6 
2 
8 
13 
7 
20 
October 
17 
8 
25 
5 
7 
12 
22 
15 
37 
4 
2 
6 
3 
3 
6 
7 
5 
12 
Noveulher 
7 
9 
16 
1 
5 
6 
8 
14 
22 
6 
4 
10 
3 
0 
3 
9 
4 
13 
December 
8 
3 
11 
3 
6 
0 
11 
9 
20 
4 
5 
9 
2 
0 
2 
6 
5 
11 
Month unknown 
5 
4 
9 
0 
0 
0 
5 
4 
9 
2 
10 
12 
0 
2 
2 
2 
12 
14 
Total 
88 
85 
173 
44 
55 
99 
132 
140 
272 
48 
70 
118 
31 
22 
53 
79 
92 
171 . 
The Commander Islanders, being' derived from the other Aleutian Islands, do not 
ditter from their relatives now under American authority in any essential point, and they 
naturally possess thecharacteristics, both good and bad, of the latter. By nature gentle^ 
intelligent, and honest, the worst of their present vices have been acquired by contact 
with white men. I have spent twenty months among them, and I have only the most 
pleasant recollections of these simple-hearted people. 
ISTotwithstanding their common origin, there is a marked difference between the 
natives on Bering Island and those on Copper Island. The former are more reticent, 
less ambitious, and, therefore, to most people, less attractive than the latter, whose 
gaiety and wluin make a very favorable impression on the visitor. This difference 
seemed more marked during my visit to the islands last year than oti the former occa- 
sion, and, on the whole, it seemed as if the Bering Islanders had deteriorated. Even 
theft was not uncommon among tlie younger generation on Bering Island — though an 
almost unknown thing fourteen years ago. But even now real criminal offenses are not 
freouent. Occasionally a serious offender has to be sent to Vladivostok for j)unish- 
