The Days of a Man 1897 



various salmon rivers a work resumed by Ever- 

 mann and myself in 1903. A few days later the 

 Rush, still at our disposal, took us over to St. Paul, 

 where we were soon joined by Thompson and 

 Macoun, who had arrived on the Satellite, a small 

 British warship. 



Fair 

 weather 



A new 

 factor 



The summer of 1897 was notably free from storms 

 and with more clear days than ever before recorded 

 in Bering Sea. From St. Paul we could at times see 

 St. George, some forty miles away, an almost un- 

 precedented phenomenon. This was the season 

 fortunately chosen by the amiable Duke of Abruzzi 

 to attack the St. Elias Range and ascend Mount 

 McKinley, the highest of its several peaks. These 

 offer no serious difficulty other than their great 

 height and the prevalence of storms, a menace ag- 

 gravated by distance from supplies. 



The chief new feature of our second summer was 

 Lucas' discovery of the havoc wrought by a then 

 undescribed species of hookworm among the fur- 

 seal pups. For this factor, however, we were par- 

 tially prepared, having the year before found three 

 or four specimens of the parasite in the dissected 

 body of a starved individual. Those Lucas sub- 

 mitted to Dr. Stiles, our highest authority on para- 

 sitic worms, from whose response I quote the fol- 

 lowing : 



The few specimens which Lucas collected certainly could 

 have been of no importance in the economy of the host, but 

 as Uncinaria is a bloodsucker of the worst type, and as allied 

 species produce serious troubles in man and dogs, analogy 



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