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there were scarcely 2,000 left. Regular killing had been stopped and 

 for the present the Komandorski seal herd is non-productive. 



The vi^eather which had been stormy and foggy now settled down 

 to a continuous fog and rain which interfered greatly both with ob- 

 servations and collecting. The latter was confined mostly to insects 

 and plants. An interesting addition to the flora of the Commander 

 group was the finding of Cypripcdiuni guttatutii, apparently confined 

 to a single locality on Bering Island on a hillside south of the great 

 swamp back of the Nikolski village. 



On August 8, the first clear day for weeks, the Mojave arrived 

 and after staying a couple of hours proceeded with the completed 



Fig. 43. — Harbor of Petropaulski, Kamchatka. (Photograph by 

 L. Stejneger.) 



party to Petropaulski, the capital of Kamchatka. The delay had 

 been caused by the necessity of the Mojave returning from Anadir 

 to Unalaska for fuel oil. 



At Petropaulski the town was found to be in the possession of the 

 " whites," i. c, the officials of the Vladivostock government supported 

 by an " army " of about 50 men, while the " reds," i. e., the portion 

 of the male population recognizing the authority of the Far Eastern 

 Republic, were holding the hills about four miles out. Two days 

 were spent here examining into the conditions and gathering statistics 

 of various kinds. A member of the Swedish Scientific Kamchatka 

 Expedition which has been collecting natural history objects for the 

 National Museum in Stockholm for a couple of years. Dr. Rene 



