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From the mouth of Dalton Creek to Point Manby, a distance of 30 
miles, the narrow strip of land, less than a mile wide, lying between 
the beach and the edge of the Malaspina Glacier, is a succession of 
sand dunes near the beach and of gravel ridges near the glacier, with 
here and there small streams formed by the melting of the glacier ice. 
On the eastern side of Yakutat Bay areabout a dozen small islands, 
ranging in size from Khantaak, 7 miles long, to some less than an acre 
in extent. 
During the first three weeks following my arrival, I collected on Khan- 
taak Island and on the adjacent mainland from the Mission to Ocean 
Cape, and also took a canoe trip to Mr. MeGrath’s! camp, on the oppo- 
site side of the bay near Point Manby, a distance of 20 miles, but found 
little here that I had not already collected. Several days of the latter 
part of June were spent on a trip by sea to the base of Mount Teben- 
kof, a distance of 18 miles, but the weather was such that little was 
accomplished. <A canoe trip to the mainland near Knight Island about 
the middle of July was more successful, though I was compelled by 
a heavy rain storm to return after a stay of one day. Several other 
journeys were made by canoe during the summer whenever the weather 
would permit, and nearly every accessible point on the shores of the 
bay was visited. It had been my original intention to spend the greater 
part of the summer at Dalton’s cabin, an abandoned house in the forest, 
3 miles from the beach on the west side of the bay near its head; but a 
dense ice pack which lay off this shore nearly all the summer precluded 
any attempt to effect a landing. 
On August 2, accompanied by my laborer and another man employed 
toassist in handling the canoes in the ice, I left Khantaak Island withtwo 
canoes containing my camp outfit, collecting apparatus, and provisions 
for a two weeks’ cruise, visiting nearly every part of Disenchantment 
Bay and climbing many of the mountains on its shores to the line of 
perpetual snow. The greater part of my collections in this region were 
made on the southern shore of the bay, near the large rock known as 
Haenke Island. Canoeing in Disenchantinent Bay was attended with 
much labor and no little peril, as we were constaitly in danger of being 
crushed in the floating ice which filled the bay at nearly all times. 
On August 14, while camped on the east side of Disenchantment Bay 
near its entrance, I noticed that the ice floe off the mouth of Dalton 
Creek seemed to be less densely packed than usual, and, loading both 
canoes, I crossed to the opposite side and succeeded in landing, though 
one of the canoes was upset in the surf. Two days later I returned to 
Khantaak Island with my entire outfit. During this two weeks’ trip 
the weather was exceptionally favorable and the collections were the 
most satisfactory made during the season, The rain poured in torrents 
nearly every day during the latter half of August, though some col- 
lecting was done in the intervals. The rainfall is said to have been 
'Of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. 
