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Bolshaya Bukhta, Copper Island 46 
Bradford, Captain 119 
Branchipuspaludosus 29 
Brandt, Captain 58 
Bravery of bulls 07 
Briiraer, Lieutenant 53 
British Bering Sea Commissioners 55 
57, 69, 86, 96, 97, 98, 101, 122 
Bryant 61, 69. 82 
Bryanthus 26 
Buchner, Dr. E 60 
Bulls, virility of 66, 76 
Butterfly 22 
Buy.an 37, 38 
Calculation of number of seals 105 
Callotaria ursina 20, 60, 60 
Canadian sealing fleet in Asiatic waters, 1892 123 
1893 126 
1894 128 
Cape Afrika, sealing oft’ 87, 128 
Manati 37 
Matveya 44 
Nagikinski, sealing off 87, 129 
Patience 52, 56 
IVaxell 37 
Yushin 40 
Carcasses on rookeries 107 
C.arex rariflora 24 
Carlson, Captain 119 
Carmolite, schooner 123, 124 
Caroline, cruiser 127 
Carpmael, C 52 
Cassiope lycopodoides 26 
occycoccoides 24 
Cattle 31 
Cause of decrease 134 
Census of drives on Bering Island 110 
Cerithiopsis stejnegeri 24 
Chaetopods 24 
Changes of habits 82, 83 
Characteristics of natives 36 
Chernick, G 12, 92, 100 
Choris, artist 61 
C. G. White, schooner 122, 123 
Classes of seals 60 
Clear days, Bering Island 15 
Climate of Commander Islands 12 
Climate of Eobben Island 52 
Close season on Commander Islands 89 
Cloudiness, expressed in percentages 16 
Cloudy days, Bering Island 15 
Codfish as seal food 70 
Coleoptera 22 
Colonization of Commander Islands 26 
Commander Islands 7 
abandonment 89 
discovery 7 
Commission, Russian, to investigate seizures 124 
Communism on Bering Island 35 
Community fund 35 
Comparison between Commander Islands and Pribylof 
Islands catches 98, 99 
condition of rookeries in 1882-83 
and 1895 106 
condition of rookeries on Bering 
and Copper islands, 1895 171 
number of seals killed and skins 
shipped 100 
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Comparison of weather on Commander Islands and on 
Pribylof Islands ig 
Compensation for sealing 35 
Conclusions 134 
Condition of Commander Islands rookeries 97, 98, 104 
natives 29 
Sobben Island rookeries 53 
Consular warning 56, 120 
Contract of Hutchinson, Kohl, Philippeus & Co 93 
Russian Seal Skin Company 93, 94 
Conulus fulvus var 23 
Copp, Capt. W 123 
Copper Island 43 
drives severe 76 
Islanders compared with Bering Islanders 28 
Cormorant, Pallas’s 22 
Counting number of seals on rookeries 105, 106 
Crabs of Commander Islands 23 
Creophilus villosus 22 
Crowley, J.B 4,6 
Criminal oflenses 28 
Cruelty in driving 74 
Crustaceans of Commander Lslands. 23 
Dali, W. H 19, 23, 24 
Dalnaya Bukhta 46 
Daphne, cruiser 127 
Daphnialongispina 23 
Dead pups in windrows 80, 81 
Deaths on Commander Islands 28 
Decrease, cause of 134 
of seals on Karabelnoye Rookery 114 
rookeries 134 
Deficiency of bulls on Bering Island 108, 117, 135 
Deiiartment of imperial domains 104 
Description of Bering Island 36 
Copper Island 43 
Eobben Island 52 
Details of drives on Bering Island, 1895 110, 111 
Dewey, Dr. Ered. P 34 
Diana, schooner 59, 120 
Diaptomus ambigmis 23 
Difficulty of distinguishing sexes on rookery 65 
Diptera 22 
Disappearance of carcasses 81 
Discovery of Commander Islands 7 
Pribylof Islands 84,88,95 
Eobben Island Rookery 54 
Discrepancies in counts of skins shipped 99 
Disintegration of carcasses 81 
Distribution of the seals on North Rookery, Bering 
Island 63 
Districts of fox hunting 30 
Doctor 36 
Does the female seal nurse her own pups only? 77 
Dogs 32,137 
Drake, E.J 5,6 
Dress of natives 35 
Drift ice, Bering Island 17 
Driftwood 33 
Drive from Pestshani hauliug-grounds, Glinka 72 
Zapadui 73 
Drive on North Eookery, Bering Island 74,79 
Polavina Rookery, St. Paul Island 71 
Bering Island easy 135 
Bering Island, first 85 
Commander Islands 72 
Copper Island hard 135 
Drive steps, Stolbovaya Bukhta, Karabelni 46,47 
