THE EUSSIAN FUR-SEAL ISLANDS. 
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Report of British Columbia sealing Jleet sealing in “Asiatic" waters in the season of 1S93. 
Schooner. 
Lower 
coa.st 
catch. 
IJ])per 
coast 
catch. 
Asiatic 
catch. 
Total. 
Annie E. Paint . . 
18fi 
412 
421 
1,019 
Annie C. Moore. . 
04 
379 
447 
990 
418 
738 
1, 150 
Agnes McDonald 
501 
373 
964 
409 
512 
921 
Carlotta G. Cox. . 
430 
1, 6U5 
096 
2, 737 
C. 11. Tii])))er 
308 
9()7 
542 
1,817 
Carmolite 
174 
705 
(sei/.cd.) 
879 
C. D. Kand. 
28 
28 
224 
073 
897 
E. B. Marvin 
I8:i 
1, 434 
430 
2, 045 
Enterprise 
507 
507 
450 
202 
652 
Geneva 
270 
420 
600 
1,290 
Henrietta 
44 
108 
(seized.) 
152 
Mascot 
107 
220 
119 
440 
Maud S 
185 
769 
748 
1,702 
May Belle 
149 
145 
230 
524 
Schooner. 
Lower 
coast 
catch. 
17 ppor 
coast 
catch. 
Asiatic 
catch. 
Total. 
Mary Ellen 
35 
507 
304 
846 
164 
238 
402 
Ocean Belle- 
128 
C87 
646 
1,461 
Oscar and Hattie . 
25 
186 
261 
S (seized.) 
> 472 
Penelope 
345 
1,362 
1, 707 
Sea Li<m 
472 
o:9 
833 
1,934 
451 
244 
695 
Teresa 
83 
300 
175 
504 
79 
4 
83 
284 
257 
541 
Uiiihrina 
143 
707 
623 
1,473 
23 
558 
581 
\Y. P. Savward. . . . 
180 
900 
1, 080 
tv .alter A. Earle . . 
100 
1,226 
541 
1,866 
182 
204 
380 
W.P. Hall 
416 
416 
Tlie total catch by the Oanadiaiis alone ainoniited to about 17,000 skins.’ Out of 
this number probably no less than 14,000 wei'e skins of female seals. Adding to this 
the number of seals killed, but lost, those captured by the United States schooners, 
and those shot during the northward mig-ratiou during- the spring of that year, it is 
easy to conceive how enormous and irreparable must have been the blow iutlicted upon 
the hreeding seals of the Commander Islands during the year 1892. 
With over 40 vessels scouring the seas around the islands, their boats and canoes 
following the female seals as they went to and from the feeding-grounds, no wonder 
that the latter were discovered by the sealers, and in these places luidonbtedlj^ most 
of the damage was done. 
But not all the schooners were satisfled with taking the seals outside of the 
territorial wateis of linssia; they adopted the tactics of sending the boats inshore to 
hunt off the rookeries, and as a conserpience many of them had to feel the claws of 
the bear. The Eussian authorities, evidently in antici])ation of what would happen, 
had several cruisers patrolling her seas, and no less than seven schooners, one hailing 
from the United States and the other six owing allegiance to Great Britain, were 
captured by the commanders of the cruisers Zahialca, Captain de Livron, and Vitia.?, 
Captain Zarine, and by Mi\ Grebnitski on board the company’s steamer Kotil-. The 
schooners were taken to Vladivostok, condemned, and sold, except the Rosie Olsen, 
which was rechristened the Prize and given to Capt. W. Copp, of the Vancouver Belle, 
on condition that he take 37 of the captured sailors to British Colnnd)ia. The other 
sailors were sent home in the American ship Majestic, except the men of the schooners 
Marie and CarmoUte, who were taken to Vladivostok and then shipped to dapan. 
The schooners, whose capture created a great excitement in Canadian sealing 
circles, were as follows: 
(1) C. E. White, of San Francisco, seized by the Zahiaha July 10, between Copper 
Island and Bering Island. 
‘ Total of the “Asiatic catch” in the above table tl, 804 
Seized by Russian war vessels 2, 418 
Total 17,222 
Some of the skins seized by the Russians were taken on the Northwest coast. 
