FAR AND NEAR 



snow-banks on the beach by the sea, and piles of 

 driftwood, most of the large tree trunks doubtless 

 brought down by the Yukon, and many hewn and 

 sawed timbers from wrecked vessels. 



THE RETURN TRIP 



Returning to Unalaska, we tarried a few hours at 

 Dutch Harbor to take in water and coal, and then, 

 for the first time, our good ship ponited eastward 

 and toward home. A steamer from the Yukon 

 was also in Dutch Harbor with several hundred 

 returning: fjold-scekers on board. As we steamed 

 away I saw several of them far up on the green 

 mountain-side on our left looking down upon us. 

 They were barely distinguishable on that broad, 

 high, emerald slope. Just out of the harbor we saw 

 myriads of fulmars, a kind of petrel. The sea for 

 miles was black with them. We touched again at 

 the Shumagin Islands to pick up the party we had 

 left there on the 7th ; and on the 20th were again 

 at sweet pastoral Kadiak. The wild roses were in 

 bloom, very large and fine, and armfuls of them were 

 brought in to deck the table in celebration of the 

 birthday of one of Mr. Harrii-ian's daughters. 

 While here we took an afternoon to visit Long 

 Island, ten or twelve miles away, where there was 

 another fox farm. It was a low, wooded island of 

 several hundred acres stocked ^tith about a thousand 

 blue foxes. Some of the animals peeped shyly at us 



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