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Identifier: sealsalmonfisher03jord (find matches)
Title: Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Jordon, David Starr, 1851-1931 Elliott, Henry Wood, 1846-1930 Maynard, Washburn, 1844- Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909 Morris, William Gouverneur, d. 1884 Petroff, Ivan, b. 1842 Townsend, Charles Haskins, 1859-1944 True, Frederick William, 1858-1914 Brice, John J Stejneger, Leonhard, 1851-1943 United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Special Agents Division
Subjects: Bering Sea controversy Sealing Fisheries
Publisher: Washington : Govt. Printing Office
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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en, and haul up entirely on the rocky beaches, deserting the sandaltogeth-er; but the first snow that falls makes them very uneasy, andI have seen a large hauling ground so disturbed by a rainy day andnight that its hundreds of thousands of occupants fairly deserted it.The fur seal can not bear and will not endure the spattering of sandinto its eyes, which always accompanies the driving of a rainstorm.They take to the \tater, to reappear when the nuisance shall be abated. The weather in which the fur seal delights is cool, moist, foggy, andthick enough to keep the sun always obscured, so as to cast no shadows.Such weather, which is the normal weather of St. Paul and St. George,continued for a few weeks in June and Julj^ brings up from the seamillions of fur seals. But, as I have before said, a little sunshine,which raises the temperature as high as 50° to 55° F., will send themback from the hauling grounds almost as quickly as they came. P^or- 8 Plate VIII. Monograph—SEAL-ISLANDS.
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Mifff »Hfi flljl 1) 111- ■■ 11 SUNDRY SEAL-SKETCHES FROM THE AUTHORS PORTFOLIO. St. Paul Island, June and July, 1872. ALASKA INDUSTRIES. 75 timately, these warm, sunny days on the Pribilof Islands are so rarethat the seals certainly can have no ground of complaint, even if wemay presume they have any at all. Some curious facts in regard totheir selection of certain localities on these islands and their aban-donment of others I will discuss in a succeeding chapter, descriptiveof the rookeries. This chapter is illustrated by topographical surveysmade by myself. Albinos.—I looked everywhere and constantly, when treading myway over acres of ground which were fairly covered with seal pups,and older ones, for specimens that presented some aDnormity; that is,monstrosities, albinos, etc., such as I have seen in our great herds ofstock; but I was, with one or two exceptions, unable to note anythingof the kind. I have never seen any malformations or monstersamong the pups and other class

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