NO. II SMITHSONIAN EXPEDITIONS, IQIO-IQIT 37 
Mr. Bent remarks in his report that the party sailed from Seattle, 
Washington, on May 109, and took the inside passage north to 
Ketchikan, where they remained a few days, and from there they 
sailed out through Dixon Entrance and nearly west across the Pacific 
Ocean to Unimak Pass. They entered the pass on June 4, anchored 
for one night at Akun Island, and reached Unalaska on June 5. After 
discharging the cargo and coaling, they started on the western trip 
among the Aleutian Islands on June 10, with orders for the Tahoma 
to return to Unalaska on July 1. This gave the party less than three 
Fic. 42.—Red-faced Cormorants on Walrus Island. Photograph by Bent, 
July 7, 1911. 
weeks in which to explore over 800 miles of difficult islands, an under- 
taking for which three months would have been hardly time enough. 
The expedition cruised the whole length of the chain, however, and 
landed on Atka, Kiska, Attu, Tanaga, and Adak islands, besides 
visiting the western end of Unalaska Island, landing at Chernofski. 
The reconnaissance of the Aleutian chain was necessarily so super- 
ficial and hurried that merely a brief report of the results has yet been 
made, a full description of the topography and the flora and fauna 
being reserved until a more complete biological survey can be under- 
