Alaska, its waters, land and life; an illustrated lecture . shallsight the Pribilof or Seal Islands as we pass, the islands on which are the breedingrookeries and hauling grounds of the fur seals. The right to take seals is leased by thegovernment to the North American Commercial Company and it may take 100,000per year. Only the young seals, orbachelors, are killed, and they aredriven about ten miles inland, there dis-patched with clubs, the carcasses com-prising the chief subsistence of thealert natives of the islands. Indiscrim-inate pelagic sealing by foreign vesselsshooting seal in the oce
Alaska, its waters, land and life; an illustrated lecture . shallsight the Pribilof or Seal Islands as we pass, the islands on which are the breedingrookeries and hauling grounds of the fur seals. The right to take seals is leased by thegovernment to the North American Commercial Company and it may take 100,000per year. Only the young seals, orbachelors, are killed, and they aredriven about ten miles inland, there dis-patched with clubs, the carcasses com-prising the chief subsistence of thealert natives of the islands. Indiscrim-inate pelagic sealing by foreign vesselsshooting seal in the ocean while moving to and from their feeding grounds on ^^BLjf^^VIBUL J^^^H^ # ; t the edge of the warm current, has so ^^B^^l Jf V i M^^^^BHlCSKdilti 1^1greatly reduced the number of theanimals that the attempt on part of thegovernment to suppress these attacksupon seal life has long since become adiplomatic cjuestion. As we move eastward to the shore of the mainland in Bering Sea we begin KuskwoBmuits, Women, of the KuskoUwim River BERING SEA AND THE FROZEN OCEAN. 13
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