Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Along the coasts of Oregon and Washington last week, captains of U. S. Coast Guard cutters were waiting the arrival of the Pribilof fur seals, whose annual migration was reported on the move. When the seals were sighted, plunging and barking on their way to the Pribilof Islands off Alaska, the Coast Guardsmen would chug out to follow them, to guard them in their curious hegira...
...Coast Guard's duty to superintend the seal-hunting of coastal Indian tribes, the Quillayute, the Makah of Neah Bay, Wash., and further north the Haida of Sitka, Alaska. No hunters except these Indians and other aborigines in whom the privilege is vested by the sealing treaty of 1911 between Japan, Great Britain, U. S. and Russia, are allowed to kill Pribilof seals while migrating. Indians are allowed to do so only in canoes, manned by five or less hunters, armed with spears or harpoons. Power boats and firearms are forbidden. Last year hunters killed about 2,000 members...
...their migration, Pribilof seals parade in pairs or singly, not in a herd. They can stay under water for seven hours without coming up for air; after heavy storms sailors have seen them on the surface resting and wallowing in the waves. They feed upon squid, Alaska pollack, other small fish...
...Commemorating William Henry Seward, U. S. Statesman influential in the purchase of Alaska from Russia...
March 30?Celebration of Seward Day* in Alaska...