. Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska. s journal onSt. Paul Island show the suddenness, the regularity, and the frequencyof these heavy drafts of 1882 upon that surplus male life which waswholly undisturbed by man in 1872-1874. June 2, 7, aud , drives made from Southwest Bay, etc. June 13,1882, drivemade from Polaviua, etc. Juue 17 ami 20, 1882, drives made from Southwest Bay,etc. June 23, 1882, drive made from Polaviua, etc. June 26 and 27, 1882, drivesmade from Southwest Bay, etc. Juue 30, 1882, drive made from Pohivina, etc. July3,1882, drive made from Southwest
. Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska. s journal onSt. Paul Island show the suddenness, the regularity, and the frequencyof these heavy drafts of 1882 upon that surplus male life which waswholly undisturbed by man in 1872-1874. June 2, 7, aud , drives made from Southwest Bay, etc. June 13,1882, drivemade from Polaviua, etc. Juue 17 ami 20, 1882, drives made from Southwest Bay,etc. June 23, 1882, drive made from Polaviua, etc. June 26 and 27, 1882, drivesmade from Southwest Bay, etc. Juue 30, 1882, drive made from Pohivina, etc. July3,1882, drive made from Southwest Bay, etc. July 8,1882, drive made from Polavina,etc. July 13 and 20, 1882, drives made from Southwest Bay, etc. Season closed on the 20th; the full quota then taken of 85,000 for St. Paul. And another feature of this draft is that the skins taken from thesereserves were all large skins—nothing under 3 and 4 year olds, or 7^ to12 jjound skins, until the end was reached in 1889, by the 31st of July. See detailed statement, Appendix, p. 217, 218. Plate SECTION V. CHARACTER, CONDITION, AND NUMBER OF NATIVES OF THE PRIBILOVISLANDS IN 1873, 1874, AND 1890. WHAT CONSTITUTES A NATIVE. There has been some divergence of opinion on the islands as to whoare the real natives thereof, because these natives enjoy certainprivileges that are very valuable to them, and c6veted by all outsideAlaskan brethren. In this connection, the people, living here, are divided into threeclasses—that is, the males: First. The natives, properly speaking, or those who have been bornand raised upon the Pribilov Islands. Not over one-tenth of the pres-ent adult population can lay claim to this title. Second. The people who were living thereon, but not born natives atthe time of the transfer of all Alaska, July, 1867. This class consti-tutes a majority of the citizens of the two islands as they exist to-day. Third. The people who were living and working as sealers on thePribilov Islands at the date of th
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