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THE JEANNETTB ARCTIC EXPEDITION. 



is nowhere, for these islands combine the picturesqueness of 

 the Alleghanies with the vastness of the Sierra Nevadas. 

 The islands generally are delightfully green. Flowers are 

 found in many varieties. One little kind was much like my 

 own New England buttercup of the meadows dear at home- 

 To the naturalist this is a great field. 



GLAUCOUS- WINGED GULLS. 



We made Ounalaska on the 2d of August ; a lovely local- 

 ity, with much of interest. We soon left, and after a short 

 trip reached St. Michael's, Alaska. Here we got our dogs 

 and skin clothes and two Indians. Leaving here, we stood 

 across Bering Sea for St. Lawrence Bay, Siberia. Many 

 birds here; among them the lovely Aleutian tern and Sabines 

 gull both rare. 



From this place we started on the evening of August 27th 

 for the North, and entering the Arctic Ocean on the 29th, 

 we anchored at five P. M. off Serdze Kamen. The captain, 



