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it was foggy and rainy, with the wind moderating. Got under way 

 and steamed off the NE. entrance to Kiska Harbor, and made a 

 successful haul of the dredge in 35 fathoms, sandy bottom. A few 

 specimens of fish, shells, sponges, etc., were obtained. Compelled to 

 suspend operations for the day on account of heavy fog, we returned to 

 anchorage in Kiska Bay. We were under way again at 9 a. m. June 9, 

 and stood out of Kiska in a dense fog. Put over the dredge in 55 

 fathoms and made a successful haul. Several varieties of sponges, 

 corals, a few fish, serpent starfish, etc., were obtained. Fishing trials 

 from the ship and boats did not prove to be successful in the vicinity of 

 this bay and entrance to harbor. 



Shaped course for Atka, passing to the northward of Chugal and 

 Khwostof islands. Arrived at Kazan Bay, Atka Island, the forenoon 

 of June 10. Sent out seining, fishing, and hunting parties; very few 

 fish were caught by any of the parties. From questioning the natives 

 who fish around the islands, both at Attu and Atka, it appears that the 

 Atka mackerel are caught on rocky ledges covered with kelp at Attu, 

 near the entrance on the south shore of Chichagof Harbor, in 6 to 10 

 fathoms of water. It also appears from the statements made by the 

 Aleuts that the Atka mackerel is fished principally on the side of ledges 

 and islands where the tide runs strongest. Both spear and line are 

 used. 



Left Atka at p. in. June 10 for Unalaska, passing to northward of 

 intervening islands, and arrived in Dutch Harbor at 2 a. m. on the 12th. 



During the forenoon of the 12th a whaleboat arrived in the harbor 

 containing nine survivors of the whaling bark James Allen, which had 

 been wrecked on the Agladak Beefs, east end of Amlia Island. The 

 boat contained Captain Huntley and eight men, who had managed to 

 reach this port in 32 days by coasting along the chain of islands. The 

 bark was wrecked on the 11th of May, about 2.30 a. in., in attempting 

 to pass into Bering Sea by the Seguam Pass. As the boat entered the 

 harbor it was met by the steam launch of the Bear 7 then returning from 

 Iliuliuk. From an interview held on board the Bear with the survivors, 

 at which I was present, it was learned that the crew numbered fifty, all 

 told. Five boats were lowered, and four got away from the wreck, the 

 fifth boat being stove alongside. Several were drowned. One boat 

 found its way to the Alaska Commercial Companys' station at Kazan 

 Bay, Atka Island, on the 24th of May. The nine survivors in the boat 

 were transferred on the 2d of June by the company's steamer Bora to 

 the U. S. S. Petrel, and eventually were landed at Dutch Harbor. The 

 captain's boat and one other, No. 3, kept together, and landed on the 

 12th of May on the north side of Amlia Island near the scene of the 

 wreck. The fourth boat, containing the first and second mates and a 

 crew of men, parted company with the others May 11, and was last seen 

 well to windward under sail. This boat was the only one which man- 

 aged to leave the wreck with an outfit of oars, spars, sails, compass, and 

 charts. 



