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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt:...with the Company whose lease of the Pribyloff Islands has lately terminated, explained the matter to us in brief terms, by saying that See especially in this connection Elliott's Official Report for 1890. t United States' Census Report, p. 169. J Ibid., p. 77. House of Representatives, 44th Congress, 1st Session, Ex. Poc. No. 43, p. 9. this Company--" Had a good thing" in the lease: "They got the cream of the fur-seal business, and kept the decrease dark." Without in any way indorsing this statement, or attributing any such settled policy to the Company, it is certain that the published reports did not by any means convey a lull and correct statement of the condition of affairs and progress of events on the breeding islands. 676. It is agieed on all hands that the Pribyloff Islands were in excellent condition when finally ceded by Russia. The fact that the excessive slaughter of 1SGS did not lead to an immediate collapse in seal life upon them is alone sufficient to show this. In a talk had with six of the oldest and most experienced natives on St. Paul Island, all affirmed that the islands had never since been so well stocked with seals. Entering into details, they explained that the North-east Point was then completely occupied by seals both to the north and south of Hutchinson Hill. Tolstoi was in like manner entirely covered, while the Reef Peninsula was wholly occupied by cows and seaeatchie as a breeding rookery, and the killable seals found room to haul out only at its inner end, on the sands. At this lime, 3,000 to 4,000 holluschickie might easily be collected in a single drive from Middle Hill, South-west Bav, or the hauling grounds nearest to the Reef Point. 677. Mr, Daniel Webster, who has been almost continuously on the Priby...