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teen hundred miles away. He said it was because 

 the cattle were killed by falling from the cliffs. 

 The grass grows freshest and earliest on the warm 

 edges of the cliffs which it overhangs, and the cows 

 go out for it, fall, and are killed. For the same 

 reason untethered horses cannot be risked out in 

 pasture. He said the only way to keep cattle would 

 be to set fences at the top of the cliffs. Now, 

 observe that Unga is one hundred and twenty-five 

 miles farther north than Unalaska, in the "frozen 

 desert." At Unga we noticed a very good-look- 

 ing, apparently young, couple preparing to come 

 aboard, whereat we were glad, for there were only 

 four or five passengers. These proved to be Dr. 

 and Mrs. Mulhollan, of Juneau, a charming couple. 

 There had been some competition between the 

 Major and myself in the way of "telling stories." 

 r think, and the Major was inclined to concede, 

 that I carried the larger variety of them, and of 

 superior size. I had an assortment of them that 

 were fifty-year-old "chestnuts," novel because they 

 were so old, while Clarke disdained anything that 

 was not fresh and new. Dr. Mulhollan and his 

 wife laughed very well indeed as we displayed our 

 stocks. He kept quiet, but there was a twinkle in 

 his eye. He then turned to and beat us out so com- 

 pletely, and filled us with such envy, that we threat- 

 ened to rob him if he told another one. 



From Unga we wound our way farther northeast 

 to Chic-chic, which is back at the end of a crooked 



