 | United States. Census Office. 11th census, 1890 - Alaska - 1893 - 482 pages
...seals, to the number of the annual quota, as long as they are able to perform the labor satisfactorily within a given time. For this labor they are remunerated at the rate of 40 cents for killing and skinning each seal. Life-long practice has made them expert in using their... | |
 | United States. Census Office - Alaska - 1893 - 462 pages
...seals, to the number of the annual quota, as long as they are able to perform the labor satisfactorily within a given time. For this labor they are remunerated at the rate of 40 cents for killing and skinning each seal. Life-long practice has made them expert in using their... | |
 | Frederick Schwatka - Biography & Autobiography - 1898 - 466 pages
...and turned over to the trading firms, who place the cash value at the disposal of the priest. Rivalry in the business of purchasing sea-otter skins has...made them expert in using their huge clubs and sharp skinniug-knives, both implements being manufactured expressly for this use. These men are as a class... | |
 | United States. Department of the Treasury. Special Agents Division - Alaska - 1898 - 1118 pages
...greatest dispatch and system. The able-bodied Aleuts now settled upon the two islands of St. Paul and St. George are, by the terms of the agreement between themselves and the lessees, the oiily individuals permitted to kill and skiu the seals for the annual shipment as long as they are... | |
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The method of killing the sea-otter is virtually the same in all sections frequented by it. The killing of fur-seals is accomplished entirely on land, and has been reduced almost to a science of the greatest dispatch and system. The able-bodied Aleuts... 