The Days of a Man ^897 



cipal rookeries, returning in time to receive an 

 official permit to make the examination. 



Picturesque The scenery about Glinka is singularly picturesque. 



Glinka Palata Rookery lies at the foot of a steep cliff with 

 a fine waterfall. Beyond Palata is the smaller 

 Zapalata, a bench of black pebbles, sheltered on the 

 ocean side by jagged rocks. Behind rises a vertical, 

 crescent-shaped, 5oo-foot lava clifT, from the edge 

 of which the animals look as small as mice. Up 

 there we found Loiseleuria, a very pretty rhodo- 

 dendron-like shrub resembling the Swiss Alpenrose. 

 At Glinka, the preceding summer, Moser had had 

 an amusnl g experience. Stejneger having made his 

 visits to the rookeries, the Albatross put off, only to 

 be recalled by a signal from the shore. It appeared 

 that the natives were curious about a song very 

 popular in Europe; its name was "Tararaboom- 

 de-ay." Would the captain please allow the sailors 

 to sing and whistle the tune until they could learn 

 it? Their winter was very long and dark, and 

 they had nothing to do except dance and play games. 

 They had worn out all their old tunes, and were 

 eager for a new one. The captain complying with 

 this novel request, they contentedly returned to their 

 seabound village with its one mail a year sent up 

 from the distant port of Vladivostok. 



Leaving Glinka, we headed straight for Una- 

 laska; on the way I wrote my wife another poem 

 which, as these pages are my own record of my own 

 life, I venture to reproduce: 



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