CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE 



In early June, 1897, Clark and I left for our second To Bering 

 visit to the Pribilofs. Accompanying us this time ^''^ ""'"^ 



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went SIX scientinc students as volunteer assistants: 

 Elmer E. Farmer (afterward Elmer Creighton) and 

 Howard S. Warren, electricians, Bristow Adams, 

 artist, Arthur W. Greeley and Robert E. Snodgrass, 

 zoologists, all from Stanford; and from the Uni- 

 versity of Washington Trevor Kincaid, zoologist. 

 These young men were to carry out certain experi- 

 ments in electric branding, and fencing-in of the 

 young males — two schemes which had been pro- 

 posed a few years before by Townsend and True. 

 Dr. Thomas D. Wood also had joined our group 

 with a view to special studies of his own, and Mrs. 

 Wood and Mrs. Jordan went as far as Sitka, where 

 the Albatross was held in readiness for the com- 

 mission. 



Up to that point we traveled by the excursion 

 steamer ^ueen, passing again through the superb 

 Alexander Archipelago. On the ^ueen we found a 

 pleasant little company from Columbia University, 

 led by my friend and colleague in Biology, Dr. 

 Edmund B. Wilson. At Juneau, the largest town 

 in Alaska and its modern capital, we met Ogilvie, 

 a Canadian surveyor who had just come over the 

 White Pass with marvelous stories of the discovery 

 of gold along the Upper Yukon, in the district since Klondike 

 known as the Klondike. Immediately a large part ^"''^ 

 of the population of the town moved northward 



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