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distance from the dan<>;eroiis rocks of the islands. At dawn on the 

 14th the Tlietis headed for Uiiimak Pass once more, the fog still 

 hiding everything from view. Fortunately, al)ont 6 o'clock, through 

 a sudden rift, the navigating officer caught a glimpse of a headland, 

 which he rightly judged to be one of the capes at the entrance of 

 the pass. Then the inevitable fog closed down again, and through 

 its clammy folds we steamed cautiously toward land. Soon the 

 Scotch Cap light, with its group of buildings, was sighted, and we 

 steamed through ITnimak Pass into Bering Sea and turned westward 

 toward ITnalaska Harbor. Feeling our way from one dark, fog- 

 wreathed headland to another, during the afternoon we Entered 

 Unalaska Bay, and at 5 p. m. tied up at the Dutch Harbor wdiarf. 



The TlietU remained in this sheltered harbor for nine days, making 

 repairs to her machinery and taking on a supply of coal. During 

 this time I inspected the public schools in the neighboring village 

 of Unalaska, and had frecjuent consultations with Mr. and j\frs. 

 William A. Davis, the teachers, and w4th Mr. N. Gray and Dr. A. W. 

 New^hall, the members of the local school committee. 



On July 24, the repairs completed and the bunkers full of coal, 

 the Thetis resumed her cruise. By the courtesy of Captain Hamlet, 

 the Right Rev. Innocent, who recently had been appointed to the 

 oversight of the Russian Orthodox churches in Alaska, and the Rev. 

 R. J. Orlolf, of the same church, were received on board. Bishop 

 Innocent was making his first visitation to the churches in his vast 

 diocese, and was desirous of taking this opportunity to reach the 

 Russian churches on the seal islands St. Paul and St. George. 



After rounding Cape Cheerful, one of the capes at the entrance 

 to the bay, w^e ran into the fog. On the next day, when, according 

 to the calculations of the navigating officer, we should be very near 

 St. George Island, under a slow bell the vessel felt her way through 

 the fog with the utmost caution. The lead w^as kept going contin- 

 uously; every three minutes there w^as a blast from the fog whistle, 

 and sometimes through the impenetrable fog came the answering 

 echoes from the precipitous cliffs of the islands. Startled sea gulls 

 came wheeling out from the nust; tide rips indicated the prox- 

 imity of a headland, and in the offing we caught sight of a faint 

 line of breakers and heard their dull roar. Toward afternoon the 

 fog lifted, and it was possible to locate the village on St. George 

 Island, a cluster of wdiite buildings on the grassy hillside. Soon 

 after the anchor w as dropped a boat from the village came alongside, 

 in which w^ere Major Clark and Mr. Chichester, the Treasury agents 

 on the island, Father Kedrovsky, the Russian priest, and a number 

 of natives w^ho desired the services of the ship's surgeon. For the 

 next few^ hours Doctor Call w^as an exceedingly busy man, pulling 

 teeth and prescribing for many and various ailments. No ship 



