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the year to keep the wife and children, and very little 

 remains for me to get things with for myself." 



Lovering's accoimt of his experience while hunting 

 with Collins in this comitry is as follows: 



'^On September 7th Collins and I fomid ourselves 

 encamped a mile from Pavlof Bay among the alder 

 bushes, and within a few feet of a fast-running brook, 

 whose source was the melting snows that cover the 

 greater portion of Mt. Pavlof the year round. 



"Towards the south for three or four miles the country 

 was comparatively level and covered with abundant 

 grass; here and there several small streams wound 

 their way down to Pavlof Bay. For the next four or 

 five miles the country was nothing but a barren lava 

 bed with occasional patches of alders growing shoulder 

 high. At this point a ridge ran down to the bay and 

 shut off our view. 



''The country directly between us and ]\It. Pavlof 

 was very similar to that on the south, but on the north 

 it was much more broken by low, rolling hills and cut 

 by numerous small streams, until, some five or six miles 

 beyond, it assumed the character of the tundra, with 

 a great number of little lakes that could be seen as far 

 as the eye ranged. Stretching out from the northerly 

 side of Mt. Pavlof a long narrow ridge extended for 

 some three or four miles, and ended abruptly in a bold 

 point. 



"It had been agreed before leaving the ship that we 

 were to have for our hunting grounds that section of 

 the country south of this ridge, and an imaginary line 

 drawn from it in an easterly direction to Pavlof Bay, 

 and that Scull and Elting were to have to themselves 

 everything to the north and west of the long ridge. 



