American Big Game in its Haunts 



the weather clearing, we made Kaguiac, and found 

 our sloop in good condition. In addition we took 

 along an otter boat, a large rowboat, from here, 

 as our baidarkas proved rather unseaworthy. Be- 

 sides Mr. Heitman, the fur company's man, there 

 was one other white settler in Kaguiac named 

 Walch, who came to Kadiak twenty-seven years 

 ago at the time of the first American military occu- 

 pation, and though he had served in many an ex- 

 citing battle in the Civil War, the Kadiak calm ap- 

 pealed to him. He married, settled down among 

 the natives contentedly, and has never moved since. 

 This, curiously, is the case of many men who come 

 to the North, after leading wandering and adven- 

 turous lives. 



Unfavorable winds at Kaguiac delayed our sail- 

 ing, so we passed the time in excursions after 

 ptarmigans and mallards. We also secured here 

 another native, a strong, willing worker, who knew 

 the coast. 



The weather cleared suddenly, the wind shifting 

 from northeast to northwest, and enabled us to 

 make a run to our first good hunting ground in 

 Windy Bay, a large piece of water five miles long 

 by three wide, and surrounded by rock mountains 

 covered with snow, the only bare ground to be seen 

 at this time being on the low foothills, and in the 



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