. Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska. -the drivers and vic-tims during the last eighty or ninety years. The fashion on St. Georgein this matter of driving seals is quite different from that on To get their maximum quota of 25,000 annually it is neces-sary for the natives to visit every morning the hauling grounds ofeach one of these four rookeries on the north shore and bring whatthey may find back -with them for the day. Little Eastern rookery, i—From the village to the eastward,about half a mile again, is a little eastern rookery, which lies on a. NORTH ROOKER
. Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska. -the drivers and vic-tims during the last eighty or ninety years. The fashion on St. Georgein this matter of driving seals is quite different from that on To get their maximum quota of 25,000 annually it is neces-sary for the natives to visit every morning the hauling grounds ofeach one of these four rookeries on the north shore and bring whatthey may find back -with them for the day. Little Eastern rookery, i—From the village to the eastward,about half a mile again, is a little eastern rookery, which lies on a. NORTH ROOKERY Scale. J2«£t. / 8^ low bluffy slope and is not a piece of ground admitting of muchmore expansion. It has superficial area for the reception of nearly13,000 breeding seals and their young. The Great Eastern.—This is the last rookery that we find on It is an imitation, in miniature, of Tolstoi on St. Paul, withthe exception of there being no parade ground in the rear of anycharacter whatever. It is from the summU of the cliffs, overlookingthe narrow ribbon of breeding seals right under them that I have 1 The site of this breeding ground and that of the marine slope of the killinggrounds to the east of the village on this island is where sea lions held exclusivepossession prior to their driving off by the Russians—so the natives afBrni. Theonly place on St. George now where the Ei(vietopias breeds is that one indicatedon the general chart, between Garden Cove and Tolstoi Mees. 10 Monograph —SEAL-ISLANDS.
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