. Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska. he rook-ery; it was not even thought of. The hauling now at Nova^oshnah takes place at seven intervals orbreaks in the breeding belt, and right in the rear and fairly among thescattered harems in many instances. We saw the scraping tracks ofthe drive which had been made in the early hours of this morning. Wefound 15 or 20 jmps which had been swept away by the drive, out intothe rear, killed or dying by the stampede incident to such driving,just as I witnessed it at Polavina this morning, on my way up. The parade fields of this once m
. Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska. he rook-ery; it was not even thought of. The hauling now at Nova^oshnah takes place at seven intervals orbreaks in the breeding belt, and right in the rear and fairly among thescattered harems in many instances. We saw the scraping tracks ofthe drive which had been made in the early hours of this morning. Wefound 15 or 20 jmps which had been swept away by the drive, out intothe rear, killed or dying by the stampede incident to such driving,just as I witnessed it at Polavina this morning, on my way up. The parade fields of this once magnificent breeding ground are posi-tively vacant to-day; grass and white close-bunched flowers are grow-ing and springing up everywhere all over them, while large areas ofthe well-polished ground of 1872-1874 are sodded over. The hollus-chickie as they hauled to-day did not occupy a space of ground 500 by50 feet in depth over the entire extent of this immense habitat of theirs:and the drive of 5,000, which we saw on the killing grounds, had been Plate ALASKA INDUSTRIES. 497 scraped from seven different points between tlie base of HutchinsonHill and the southeast extremity of the rookery. On the northwest shoulder a small pod of say 400 holluschickie werelying in just back of the narrow strip of rookery there, about 250 feetback from the sea. A little way over, across to the south, was anothersmall pod of less than 300, near the small sand beach between the mid-dle and the northwest shoulders. Then another small pod appearedjust below the south shoulder, lying above surf wash on the sand, andanother small squad lay out on that once famous reach of sand beachunder Cross Hill and the Big Lake sand dunes. All told, there could nothave been over 3,500 of them. These, plus the 5,000 which Fowler hadin hand, gives us all there is on this great rookery to-day—8,500 hollus-chickie ; 95 per cent of them yearlings! This hauling in under the cover of the breeding seals by the non-b
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