3 o6 TWO DIANAS IN ALASKA 



quite another to flash down, meteor-like ; and all too 

 soon the uneventful journey was over, and the third 

 day found us paddling past the Sushitna settlement 

 out into the Inlet, where the black hull of the Lily 

 waited us at Hope. 



We paid off the men, all save Steve, who desired to 

 sail down the Inlet to Saldovia with us. Ned had left 

 the ship at Kodiac, and since his departure Tom, the 

 cabin boy, had seen to the trophies, and all of them, 

 bear, walruses, and birds, were in perfect condition. 



