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‘The Farrallon Islands or rocks are a distance of 20 miles from Cape Drake. The Russian and the ten Aleuts who live there were sent by the fort to hunt sea lions and fur seals. About 1500 sea lions are taken yearly: ...To obtain furs and meat for salting and drying, the best time to hunt is in the spring, but the animals are a good supply of fresh meat all year round. ...Thus, the main food in the fort for the Russians and Aleuts alike is sea lion meat...
October 7th, 1822 Munin arrived in the morning from the Farrallon Islands. On the way here, they had killed a sea turtle of enormous size...Munin said that they had taken 750 fur seals this year.
November 3rd, 1824 - VII. Observations on the Farrallon artel and on hunting in general
1. One Russian and several Aleuts live on the Farrallon islands, where they hunt sea lions and fur seals. They salt the sea lion meat and use the skins to cover large baidaras and baidarkas...
2. Make certain that the laftaks are well dressed so that these hides can serve for a long time...
3. Hunt whales along the coast and try your best to interest the men in the hunt by promising them some sort of reward in addition to their normal food ration.....