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CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE 577 



1. To Bering Sea once more Klondike gold 

 Muir Glacier Cleveland's idiosyncrasy Bowers 



"Steve" Elkins - - Moser to the rescue 

 An agreeable change - - War at Karluk - - Bel- 

 kofski The Sea Otter Much gold but no 

 food A Treasury order Costly disregard 

 of national resources 



2. Fair weather A new factor Attacks of 

 Uncinaria lucasi Complete eradication 

 Branding Fencing a failure The Fur Seal's 

 stupidity His teachable cousin Short mem- 

 ories On the Satellite -- British discipline 

 The gay homes of Nikolski -- Luscious dishes 



Bering's death on Tolstoi Mys Steller's 

 fate 



3. Medni precedents Picturesque Glinka 

 Moser confers a boon Poetic inspiration 

 Sending for the mail Hooper's tact and wis- 

 dom A master seaman Fog as a blanket to 

 sound Trying to be funny The Roble cat 



Fatal detail A frantic editor "Scios- 

 ophy" A profitable hoax Fur Seals extinct 

 on Guadalupe Island 



4. The diplomatic commission British reluc- 

 tance Our predicament A way out Fresh 

 complications Vostochni invaded Sir Wil- 

 frid Laurier Kakichi Mitsukuri and his strange 

 offering Foster calls on me for a speech 

 5. Fur Seal report Treaty of 1911 Credit 

 where credit is due Efforts to neutralize the 

 treaty Menace of unchecked pelagic sealing 



Unsound reasoning Killing of superfluous 

 males a necessity Value of expert knowledge 



Continuous observation 



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I. Atrocities in Cuba A special envoy Sink- 

 of the Maine McKinley's advisers Wood- 



xxiii H 



