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familiar with it as heard in various places on the Californian 

 coast, from the rocks of St. George on the northern border, 

 southward to near Point Conception. Especially when it 

 broke the stillness of night was it impressive. More than 

 once, sleeping on the ground, in my blanket near shore, 

 I have been awakened by that deep guttural note, and 

 have listened to that loud but low-pitched voice mingled 

 with the sounds of the winds and breakers. I think it the 

 most impressive of the sounds of the night I have ever 

 heard in the loneliness incident to exploration near a 

 rocky shore. The scream of the panther in a mountain 

 forest may be more startling but is much less impressive. 



Some of the Harriman party visited a great rookery of 

 sea lions on the volcanic islands of Bogoslov, near the 

 Aleutians. I did not go there, but I had seen enough of 

 sea lions years before to appreciate the enthusiastic com- 

 ments of one of the party who did go. " It is the sight of 

 a lifetime; nothing else in the world like it!" 



A few days after leaving the Pribyloff Islands, the Harri- 

 man Expedition anchored in Plover Bay, in Northeastern 

 Siberia, near Bering Strait. A low and narrow sandspit 

 extends into the bay from the foot of the steep and pictur- 

 esque bluffs on one side. On the outer end of the spit is 

 a small Eskimo village. It was evident that there had been 

 a village here for a very long time and apparently it had 

 once been very populous. 



The people of this tribe are unlike any other Eskimo 

 I have ever seen. They differ from the Alaskan Eskimo 

 whom we visited the next day, on the other side of the 

 strait, less than two hundred miles distant, and are very 

 unlike the Eskimo of Greenland and of Northern Labrador. 

 They are somewhat larger than the Alaskan tribe, and 

 very much larger than the Greenland and Hudson Bay 

 Eskimo; and they have a very different type of counte- 

 nance. The men are well formed, some of them extremely 

 so. This is due to the admixture with the Chuckchee 

 blood of North Eastern Siberia. The men have the crown 

 shaved, as do the Chuckchees, the tonsure encircled 

 by a rather broad strip of very stiff and not very long 

 hair. The countenances are very unlike the Greenland 

 Eskimo. The nose is not so small and is straighter, the 



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