26 PROCEEDINGS OF THE \ l//o\ \i, \il si:i I/. vol.38. 



Bremerton, where we arrived at about 7 p.m. Lieutenant Hepburn 

 and I went by a local boat to Seattle the next morning on business, 

 the Albatross meeting us there in the afternoon. 



We left Seattle at 10.35 a. m. on the 13th, arriving at Union Bay, 

 Vancouver Island, at 7 a. m. the next morning. 1 had two and 

 a half days ashore here. We left at 7 a. m. on the 17th, and passed 

 up the inland passage between Vancouver Island and the mainland, 

 anchoring over night in Forward Bay, Johnstone Strait. At 6 a. m. 

 on the 18th we got underway, stood westward through Johnstone 

 Strait, and took the great circle course for Unalaska, where we 

 secured to the wharf at Dutch Harbor at 4.19 p. m. on the 24th. 

 We left Dutch Harbor early in the morning of the 28th, bound for 

 Atka, where we arrived at 6.45 a. m. on the 30th, anchoring in Xazan 

 Bay. On the w T ay from Unalaska to Atka we passed close to thatmost 

 interesting trio (previously pair) of volcanic islands, the Bogoslovs. 



Leaving Atka at 6.05 a. m. on the 31st, we cruised about in Bering 

 Sea in a general northerly direction, passing over Bower's Bank, our 

 farthest north being lat. 54° 32' 30" N., which we readied in long. 

 179° 16' 00" E. on June 3 (omitting June 2). From Bower's Bank 

 we went southward past Semisopochnoi and Amchitka, then in a 

 westerly direction to Agattu, where we anchored, in McDonald Bay, 

 at 7.51 p. m. on June 7. I spent the next morning ashore, but I had 

 not got very far inland when 1 heard the whistle of the steamer and 

 hastened back to the beach to find that in the meantime a wind had 

 risen directly on shore which threatened to make the anchorage dan- 

 gerous for the ship; even as it was we had a very hard pull back. I 

 was forced to abandon a number of specimens here, all large birds, 

 which I had shot and "cached" at various places, as the hurry call 

 from the steamer compelled me to take the shortest route to the 

 beach, and returning the way I had come would have entailed con- 

 siderable delay. We left Agattu at 6.50 p. m. on the 8th for Attn, 

 passing the Semichi Islands, and anchoring in Chichagof Harbor, 

 Attu, at 4.12 p. m. on the 9th. I spent the evening ashore here, all 

 the next day, and the morning of the 11th. We left at 3.59 p. m. 

 on that date, and did some deep-sea work between Attu and Copper 

 Island, arriving at Preobrajenia Bay, Copper Island, at 9.30 a. m. on 

 June 13. Here I spent the afternoon and evening ashore. We left 

 at 7 a. m. on the 1 4th, and at 9.10 a. m. on the i:»th anchored in 

 Xikolskoi Bay, Bering Island. I went ashore as soon as possible, 

 ret urning about 8.30p.m. We got underway at 5.05 a. m. on the 16th, 

 and at 1.37 p. m. on the 17th arrived in Petropaulski, Kamchatka. 

 We left Petropaulski at 8.20 a. m. on the '20th. sailing south along the 

 Kamchatka!! coast, rounding Cape Lopatka ami sailing up the west 

 coast to the mouth of the Aangan River, in about lat. 51° 30' 00" 

 N. From this point we went south along the Kurds to Simushir, 

 where at 8.27 a. m. on June 23 we came to anchor in Milne Bay. 



