THE KUSSIAN FUR-SEAL ISLANDS. 
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Museum, and I ijartook in tlie drive, wlucli lasted from 2 o’clock in the morning to 10 
a. m. At 1 p. m. I embarked again on the Albatross and steamed at once away for 
Bering Island; anchored off the main village on July 3, and on the 4th, with Cai>tain 
Drake and Mr. 0. H. Townsend, went per dog-sledge to the great North Eookery. 
After having landed my effects, the Albatross left on the following day. 
My next trip to the North Eookery was per boat, in company with Governor Greb- 
nitski, on July 7. On July 15 I again proceeded to the same rookery in dog-sledge, 
returning to the main village by the same means July 20. Bad weather prevented 
the carrying out of my intentions of visiting the South Eookery at this time. On 
July 27 I took passage on the Eussian Seal Skin Company’s steamer KoWc, Capt. C. E. 
Lindquist, for Copper Island, and on July 30, in comx)any with the governor, Mr. 
Grebnitski, who bore the expense of the trip, started from the main village on an open- 
boat expedition around the island. Spent the evening and the next morning at the 
sea-otter rookery. July 31 and August 1 were devoted to inspecting and i)hotograph- 
ing the Karabelni rookeries and Angust 2 to 11 to the Glinka rookeries, the latter 
being the more important ones, finishing the circumnavigation August 12. On the 
steamer Kotik I then returned to Bering Island, anchoring off the North Eookery 
August 13. Visited the South Eookery August 17, securing photographs and a map 
of the rookery. On August 18 I called on board the British cruiser of the third class 
Porpoise, Commander Francis E. Pelly (doing patrol service on the 30-mile limit), then 
at anchor off Nikolski. On August 21 I went in dog- sledge to the North Eookery, 
returning two days later. The captain of the Porpoise having kindly offered to take 
me to Petroi)aulski, I gladly accepted his offer, as it was somewhat doubtful whether 
the Kotik, in which I intended to return to San Francisco, would be able to call at the 
islands before going home, and I did not dare to risk the possibility of wintering on 
Bering Island. I arrived in Petropaulski August 25. The comiiauy’s agent having 
decided to make another trip to the islands, I returned in the Kotik and was thus 
enabled to again inspect the Bering Island South Eookery on September 9 and the 
North Eookery September IG, being back in Petropaulski September 18, which port 1 
left on September 24 in the Kotik, bound for San Francisco, where I arrived on 
October 11. 
The weather was unprecedentedly stormy and rainy during my entire stay at 
the islands and interfered greatly with my work. The great distances between the 
habitations and the rookeries and tlae primitive means of transi)ortation also added to 
the difficulties, while much valuable time was lost owing to the uncertainty of the 
movements of the steamer. 
Under such adverse circumstances I should have been unable to accomplish even 
what I did had it not been for the kind assistance I received on all sides. 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 
In the first place, it gives me great pleasure to acknowledge the aid and courtesies 
received at the hands of Governor N. Grebnitski, the administrator of the islands, 
without which I should have been seriously embarrassed in my work. The following 
report would undoubtedly have been more replete with official data and statistics 
relating to the sealing industry on the islands had not the documents relating thereto 
been either sent away already or packed ready for shii^ment in anticipation of Mr. 
Grebuitski’s prospective departure for St. Petersburg. 
