

TWO DIANAS IN ALASKA 81 



We went on to Dutch Harbour, on Unalaska, most 

 beautiful of islands, where we found to our surprise 

 another hunting camp located, preparatory to moving 

 on. It was that of a solitary Englishman, out after 

 brown bears, and he had made Unalaska from Kodiak 

 on a chance trading vessel. He now intended creep- 

 ing back to the mainland of the Peninsula in a dory, 

 a very sporting thing to dare to do. 



Such a dare-devil trip would, I imagine, have re- 

 sulted in the complete exodus of the venturesome 

 sportsman from Alaskan waters, and for his sake we 

 were very relieved to hear of the purchase of an 

 ancient brig, much the worse for time and inaction, 

 which might, with a little fettling up, be persuaded 

 to make a sort of swan-song trip of a voyage back 

 along the Pacific Coast. 



Our wayfaring countryman was an Imperial Yeo- 

 man. He did not look imperial, but he was, oh very. 

 HE HAD BEEN TO SOUTH AFRICA. And could not for- 

 get the fact. He demonstrated with the few forks our 

 limited supply ran to, how he turned the Wakker- 

 strom turning movement, built a Vaal Krantz with 

 the salt-cellars, and rode into Ladysmith on the 

 mustard-pot. 



" He sailed away at break of day," before we were 

 up; and not until we needed them did we discover 

 that two of Diana's rangers had falsed themselves, 

 and enlisted under the banner of the Imperial Yeo- 

 man. He would not know, of course, that the avari- 

 cious renegades were under contract of sorts to hunt 

 with us, and probably agreed to pay the two dollars 



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