. Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska. om the village to makea killing at Zapadnie, there being more seals than wanted then closeby at Tolstoi, Lukannon, and Zoltoi sands. This not alone, but thatsplendid, once clean-swept expanse of hauling ground in English Baybetween the Zapadnies and Tolstoi, is all grass groicn today exceptover its areas of drifting sand, with mosses, lichens, and flowers inter-spersed ! It is entirely bare of seals save a lonely pod under MiddleHill. Lower Zapadnie is certainly the roughest surfaced breeding groundpeculiar to the seal islands: and i
. Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska. om the village to makea killing at Zapadnie, there being more seals than wanted then closeby at Tolstoi, Lukannon, and Zoltoi sands. This not alone, but thatsplendid, once clean-swept expanse of hauling ground in English Baybetween the Zapadnies and Tolstoi, is all grass groicn today exceptover its areas of drifting sand, with mosses, lichens, and flowers inter-spersed ! It is entirely bare of seals save a lonely pod under MiddleHill. Lower Zapadnie is certainly the roughest surfaced breeding groundpeculiar to the seal islands: and it is a curious place on which to viewthe seals as they locate themselves, for as you walk along they sud-denly appear and disappear as they lay in those queer little valleys andcanyons here, which have been formed by lava bubbles of the geolog-ical time of the elevation of St. Paul Island from the sea. But to-day,so scant is the massing of the breeding seals here, that that unbrokenuproar which boomed out from them in 1872 is wholly absent; it is Plate 11,.
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