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Pl.areaus on Bering Island 37 
Pleurotoina lieringi 24 
Plotting of sealing logs 129 
Podntiosnaya 37 
Polavina Eookery, St. Panl Island 71 
Polavino 36,37,38 
Polndionnoye lexhbislitclie 42 
Rookery 39, 42 
Polusikatchi 60 
Popof 95 
Popofski, K.ar.abelui 47 
Popnl.ation of Commander Islands 26 
Porpoise, cruiser 79 
Position of Bering Island 36 
Commander Islands 7,1! 
Copper Island 43 
Eobben Iskand 52 
Potamilla neglecta ■- 24 
Potatoes 33 
Potts, Captain 119 
Powers, Captain 59 
Precipitation, Bering Island 16 
St. Paul Island 18 
Preobrazhenskaya Sojjka 43 
Preobrazhenskoye village 44 
Prevailing winds, Bering Island 17 
Pribylof 84 
Pribylof Islands ceded to United States 7 
weather compared with that of Com- 
mander Ishands 18 
Price of sea-otter skins 29 
Prize, schooner 123 
Prohiljition of killing on land 136 
pelagic sealing 136,137 
Proportionate number of se.ves and ages on rookeries. 63 
Prospects, future, on Comm.ander Islands 136 
Protassof - 84, 95 
Provisional agreement of M.ay, 1893 125 
Ptarmigans 31 
Pupilla arctica 24 
decora 24 
Pups driven on Bering Island 76, 107. 110, 111 
Pups, mortality of 78, 79, 81 
Pyrus 25 
Raids not cau.se of decrease 135 
of Commander Ishands rookeries 118 
Eobben Island 54, 55. 56, 57. 58 
Rain gauge 13 
Eangifer t.arandus 21 
Ranunculus hyperboreus 24 
E.athbun, E 4 
Eazboinik, cruiser 56, 57, 103 
Recolouiziition of Commander Islands 89 
Recommendations 136 
Record of soundings in Bering Sea 11 
Eedfish 31 
Reef 106, 107 
Reef rookery, Bering Island 40 
Reefs 38 
Regulations for fox hunting 30, 31 
hunting sea otters on Copper Island . . 21, 29 
governing the business on tlie rookeries. . 103 
Reindeer on Bering Island , 21,33 
Relation of Comm.anderIsl.ands fauna and tiora 19 
Eel.ative humidity, Bering Island 16,18 
Relics of Bering’s expedition 8 
Religion , 36 
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Rental paid by Hutchinson, Kohl, Philippeus & Co. . . 93 
Russian Seal Skin Company 94 
Report of British Columbia sealing tieet 1892 123 
1893 126 
1894 128 
Report on Canadian pelagic sealing on the Asiatic side, 
1894 127 
peat from Bering Island 34 
Revisors 104, 120 
Rhododendron chrysanthum 25, 26 
kamtschaticuTU 25 
Rifovoye lezhbishtche 40 
Rohben Island 52 
Eobbin Island 52 
Robin Island 52 
Rocky’ Point, St. P.aul Island 71 
Eookery, Eobben Island 53 
Rose, J. K 24 
Rosie Olsen, schooner 123, 124 
Rosset, Lieutenant 53 
Rubns chamaemorus 26 
Rules governing se.aling business 102 
Russian- American agreement of May, 1894 127 
company 54, 89, 95, 97, 10] , 102 
Russian-British agreement of May’, 1893 125 
modus vivendi 87 
Russian commission to investigate seizures 124 
notice to imachers 120 
se.aling industry 88 
Seal Skin Company 6, 54, 57, .59, 93, 101 
Russkoye Tov.arishtchestvo Kotikovikli Proinislof. ... 92 
Rytina gigas 20.95 
stelleri 20 
Sabatcha Dira 48 
Siihlberg, J 22 
Saipan, schooner ,58 
Sakhalin Island 52 
Sakhalin, schooner 103, 121 
Salix 25 
Salmon as se.al food 70 
fishery on Bering Island! 31 
Salt-house, North Eookery, Bering Island 41 
Kar.abelni 47 
Pest.shani 51 
Poiiofskl 47 
South Rookery, Bering Island 43 
Salt-houses, Glinka 51 
Sandman, Cai)t. J 52, 55, 59, 92, 107, 119 
‘ ‘ S.andman-Grebnitski ” map 108 
Saranna Lake, Bering Island 37, 38 
Saranna River, Bering Island 70 
Saranna vilhage ,‘ind river 31, 37, 39 
Saranna settlement, Bering Island 89 
Saranskie Lotki 37 
Say ward, schooner 124 
Scammon, Captain 54,01 
Schools 36 
Scope of the work 3 
Se.a-cow 1 20 
Seii-lion 20 
Se.a Lion Rock, Bering Ishand 40 
Seal rookeries, Bering Island '. 39 
Coppe’r Ishand 45 
Seal life on Commander Islands 60 
rookeries 134 
Seals hurt while driven 75 
Sea-otter 20, 21, 29, 95 
