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Chapter Twenty-three 577 



1. To Bering Sea once more — Klondike gold — 

 Muir Glacier — Cleveland's idiosyncrasy — Bowers 



— "Steve" Elkins — Moser to the rescue — 

 An agreeable change — War at Karluk — Bel- 

 kofski — The Sea Otter — Much gold but no 

 food — A Treasury order — Costly disregard 

 of national resources 



2. Fair weather — A new factor — Attacks of 

 Uncinaria lucasi — Complete eradication — 

 Branding — Fencing a failure — The Fur Seal's 

 stupidity — His teachable cousin — Short mem- 

 ories — On the Satellite — British discipline — 

 The gay homes of Nikolski — Luscious dishes 



— Bering's death on Tolstoi Mys — Steller's 

 fate 



3. Medni precedents — Picturesque Glinka — 

 Moser confers a boon — Poetic inspiration — 

 Sending for the mail — Hooper's tact and wis- 

 dom — A master seaman — Fog as a blanket to 

 sound — Trying to be funny — The Roble cat 



— Fatal detail — A frantic editor — "Scios- 

 ophy" — A profitable hoax — Fur Seals extinct 

 on Guadalupe Island 



4. The diplomatic commission — British reluc- 

 tance — Our predicament — A way out — Fresh 

 complications — Vostochni invaded — Sir Wil- 

 frid Laurier — Kakichi Mitsukuri and his strange 

 offering — Foster calls on me for a speech 

 5. Fur Seal report — Treaty of 191 1 — Credit 

 where credit is due — Efforts to neutralize the 

 treaty — Menace of unchecked pelagic sealing 



— Unsound reasoning — Killing of superfluous 

 males a necessity — Value of expert knowledge 



— Continuous observation 



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I. Atrocities in Cuba — A special envoy — Sink- 

 of the Maine — McKinley's advisers — Wood- 



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