II GUIDES, EQUIPMENT, HUNTING LOCALITIES 19 



KODIAK 



Mr. Goss. — Manager of the Alaska Commercial Company, Kodiak. The 

 man to apply to for help in obtaining natives, or small vessels for 

 hunting in that district. 



Nicolai Picoon. — A good native Aleut hunter, who was with our party 

 in 1903. 



Unga Island 



Peter Larsen. — Owner of a small sloop and a hunter. With Mr. A. S. 

 Reed and also Mr. A. J. Stone in 1903. 



Sand Point 



Messrs. Groswald atid Scoff. — Storekeepers. Will outfit and help sports- 

 men going to the Alaska Peninsula. 



As regards the wages paid to the head guides, these 

 range from 5 to 10 dollars per diem, but when the last- 

 named sum is given, the guide generally supplies a boat 

 and a native as well. Such a man will be found more than 

 useful on a first expedition in the country, since he knows 

 exactly what to take and what to leave behind. He can 

 also be trusted to collect a staff of natives who can be relied 

 on, whereas a stranger may be imposed upon by some of the 

 worthless lazy natives so numerous in the neighbourhood of 

 Cook's Inlet. 



The pay of natives in the district just mentioned ranges 

 from I dollar 25 cents to i-g- dollars per diem ; but in the 

 neighbourhood of Unga the natives will ask as much as 2^ 

 dollars per day, as they can earn this by working in the mines. 

 Such pay seems excessive to the average Englishman, when 

 he considers the wages of his own countrymen at home, but in 

 Alaska, as the miners say, "It is not what you want but 

 what you get," and if a man does not care to do all his own 

 packing, he has to pay practically what the natives like to 

 ask. 



