CHAPTER III. 



FKOM SAN FRANCISCO TO ST. LAWRENCE BAY. 



8 Jidy — 27 August, 1879. 



The Start. — The Escort. — The Company. — Ounalaska Island. — 

 The Alaska Commercial Company. — Letter to Secretary of the 

 Navy. — Generosity of the Company and its Agent. — St. Mi- 

 chael's. — No Tidings of Nordenskjold. — The Officers of the Jean- 

 nette. — Arrival of the Schooner Fanny A. Hyde. — The Character 

 of the Crew. — The Arctic Stores of Clothing and Provisions. — 

 The Interpreters. — Off for St. Lawrence Bay. — The Dogs. — St. 

 Lawrence Bay. — The Chief George and his Story about a Ship. 

 — Lutke's Island. — The Last of Civilization. 



[The story of the voyage of the Jeannette will be 

 told m the words of the commander. Besides the 

 ship's log he kept a full journal during the voyage, 

 and continued the record after the ship was abandoned. 

 It has been the task of the editor to reproduce the 

 journal with such omissions and corrections only as its 

 form, never intended for publication, seemed to de- 

 mand. This journal was to be Lieutenant-Commander 

 De Long's record of the expedition, but after leaving 

 San Francisco, and before entering Behring Strait, he 

 had opportunities of sending letters home, and the nar- 

 rative preserved in this chapter is drawn by turns from 

 his journal and from these letters.] 



[from the journal.] 

 Upon steaming out of the harbor of San Francisco 

 the Jeannette was escorted by some half dozen yachts 



