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Ainu hunter (Kurils to Robben?)

1877- number of sailing vessels to Kurils 17 the [[?]] was on board "Nashinta Maru"- took 176 - fur seals 16000 by all all vessels

1878- 15 miles from Yokoh. - took ([[?]] on "Attarki") 7600 fur seals - 89 sea otters

1879 - 18 vessels from Yokohama ([[Latimer??]] in same vessel) 7000 seals, 47 sea otters


(12) slaughter on the islands. 

They believe that the official figures are much below the actual numbers taken and that thousands upon thousands of skins are stolen by the officials.  The wildest estimates as to the number of the seals in the rookeries find believers, he himself believing a Scotch man, naturalized Russian subject, owner of large fishing interests in Sakhalin, who had told him, that last

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