. Fur seal arbitration. Proceedings of the Tribunal of arbitration, convened at Paris, under the treaty between the United States ... and Great Britain, concluded at Washington, February 29, 1892, for the determination of questions between the two governments concerning the jurisdictional rights of the United States in the waters of Bering sea . e iirst time I noticed a decrease of seals on the rookeries, aboutseven or eight years ago, and the seals have becomeDecrease begau fewcT cvcrv vcar siuce. We used to kill 85,000 seals seven or eight years 02. r> S V i i • i j_i • i. t 1 1- x-i ago.
. Fur seal arbitration. Proceedings of the Tribunal of arbitration, convened at Paris, under the treaty between the United States ... and Great Britain, concluded at Washington, February 29, 1892, for the determination of questions between the two governments concerning the jurisdictional rights of the United States in the waters of Bering sea . e iirst time I noticed a decrease of seals on the rookeries, aboutseven or eight years ago, and the seals have becomeDecrease begau fewcT cvcrv vcar siuce. We used to kill 85,000 seals seven or eight years 02. r> S V i i • i j_i • i. t 1 1- x-i ago. on St. Paul Island in less than sixty days time until 1890, when they became so few we could not take morethan about one-fourth of that number in the same length of never saw but a few dead pups on the rookeries until the schoonerscame into the sea and shot the cows when they wenti>ps- ^^^ ^^j j-^^^l .^jj^l then the dead ])ups began to in- crease on the rookeries. I hRve often cut o])en dead pups and examinedtheir stomachs, and found them empty, and the pups looked as if theyhad been starved to death. There were more dead jnips in 1891 thanc-\ (!• betore, and they were all starved to deatb. When we used to killpups for food and clothing in November, I often examined them, andalways found plenty of milk in their RELATING TO ST. PAUL ISLAND. 133 I never saw or lieard tell of a siok seal and althougliwe liave always eaten the flesh of tliefur seal we have ^^^o sick or diseasednever found one that was diseased in any way. The seals came to theislands in the spring and they come from thesouth through the passes of the Aleutian islands. The a fbulls come lirst in May, then the oldest of the bach- £^^[1]^ °elors, and they keep coming till July, and they haul outby themselves on the hauling grounds; and the bulls ^^ ^^*and cows go together on the breeding rookeries. If the bachelors wenton the breeding rookeries the bulls would kill them. The cows begi
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