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lie M as staudiiig several huudred feet lov^er to tlie right and that consequently the 
solid belt of seals at tlie base of Palata must look so inucli narrower on his iiicture 
than on niiue. My other photographs (pis. 48, 40), looking toward Palata and Sabatcha 
Dira from the outlying rocks off the former, serve to more fullj^ illustrate the discon- 
nected and thin character of the breeding-grounds in 1805. 
And as uffth Palata, so with Zapalata. The change ivas less striking, though by 
no means less radical. On the contrary, Zapalata, in proportion, was even more 
deserted. It is a source of great satisfaction to me that in photographing this rookery 
I happened to place my camera on the exact spot where Colonel Voloshinof ten years 
previously had exposed a plate, and although it evidently met with some mishap, 
so that this picture is one of the less satisfactory ones, I have reproduced the two 
(pis. 50 and 57a). On the whole light beach mj^ iff lotograph shoves nothing but stones, 
while the same area in Voloshinof’s is teeming with thousands of breeding seals. By 
turning my camera in the opposite direction I obtained the other picture (pi. 55) 
showing the same depleted condition. 
To complete the series of photographs illustrating the condition of the various 
parts of the rookery, I finally reproduce one by Mr. Grebiiitski, taken from the rocks 
in Sikatchinskaya Bukhta August 3, as I had no opi)ortunity to photograph it myself. 
It tells the same story (575). 
The total number of skins shipped from Glinka in 1895 was 4,809 (including a few 
hundreds of the autumn catch of 1894), a trifle more than one-half the catch of the 
previous year. 
In viev" of the great number of half-bulls and bulls it is interesting to note that 
the skins both from Karabelni and from Glinka vmre unusually small. No regular 
tally of the weight of the entire catch was kept on Copper Island, but iipon our arrival 
there was a great complaint of the lightness of the skins. During my stay at Glinka, 
from August 2 to 11, the natives were unable to take more than one small drive, in 
spite of their anxiety to make more money and to obtain more fresh meat. The skins 
of this drive were weighed according to Mr. Grebnitski’s directions, who himself kept 
tally. The weight of the skins was ]ioted to the half pound, but to simplify the list 
and make it easily comparable with the corresponding ones upon Bering Island I only 
recorded whole pounds; a skin weighing 7^ pounds, for instance, I counted as 8 
])ounds, Avhile 7J pounds >vas recorded as 7. Mr. Grebnitski’s tally and my tally will 
differ to that extent, but the average Avill undoubtedly be very nearly the same. This 
average, it will be seen, is scarcely 7| pounds. When I visited Copper Island in 1883 
the comi^any refused every skin under 8 pounds. 
Weii/ht of slins Itrouglit to the salt-house at Glinha, Copper Island, August 8, 1895. 
Weight. 
Num- 
ber. 
35 
108 
40 
17 
11 
6 
5 
2 
3 
1 
228 
7.6 
Average weight of skius pounds.. 
