CHAPTER XII 



COASTING THE ALASKA PENINSULA 



WE had spent ten days at Pavlof Bay according to 

 our schedule and it was now the eighteenth of 

 September, a week or two later than Klein- 

 schmidt had planned. Our next and last excursion after 

 game was to take place in the Kenai Peninsula, that 

 considerable tongue of land which separates the waters 

 of Cook's Inlet from those of the Gulf of Alaska. At the 

 town of Seward we were to leave the "Abler," which 

 would go directly back to Seattle while we spent a month 

 in the interior. For a thoroughly satisfactory hunt there 

 forty days was none too much. But the vicissitude of 

 our summer's voyage had used the time at our disposal. 



Had the weather been favorable it would not have 

 taken us more than four days to get from Pavlof Bay 

 to Seward, but in fact we were eight days in arriving there. 



In the first place we had to put in at Pirate Cove on 

 Popof Island and take on board a large number of gaso- 

 line drums which Kleinschmidt had left there in the spring. 

 On account of head wind, we had to anchor for the night 

 in Coal Bay, about a mile to leeward of a large reef on 

 which the steamer ''Dora" had been wrecked, and which 

 tossed the white spray of its breakers high into the air. 

 Some twenty-four hours, however, after leaving Pavlof 

 Bay we arrived at the beautiful little harbor of Pirate 

 Cove and proceeded at once to load the iron barrels. 

 This tiny harbor was one of the oldest fishing stations on 



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