IN GREEN ALASKA 



that he could smell him. The bear undoubtedly got 

 a smell of the ^aptain first. 



Our party had now been a month together, and 

 had assumed the features of a large and happy 

 family on a summer holiday cruise. We were of 

 diverse interests and types of character, yet one in 

 the spirit of true comradeship. This fortunate con- 

 dition was due largely to the truly democratic and 

 manly character of the head of the expedition, Mr. 

 Harriman, and to the cheerful and obliging temper 

 of Captain Doran. The pleasure of the party was 

 the pleasure of our host and of the captain. The 

 ship was equally at the service of men who wanted 

 to catch mice or collect a new bird, and of those 

 who wanted to survey a glacier or inlet or to shoot 

 a bear. One day it made a voyage of sixty miles 

 to enable our collectors to take up some traps, the 

 total catch of which proved to be nine mice. The 

 next day it was as likely to go as far to enable Ritter 

 and Saunders to dredge for new forms of sea life, 

 or Devereux to inspect some outcropping of copper 

 ore. Early in the voyage our committee on enter- 

 tainment arranged a course of lectures. Nearly 

 every night at eight o'clock, on the upper deck or 

 in the Social Hall, some one of our college professors 

 or government specialists held forth. One night it 

 was Dall upon the history or geography of Alaska; 

 then Gilbert upon the agency of glaciers in shaping 

 the valleys and mountains, or upon the glaciers we 



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