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we had left the tracks and since there was a twelve-foot 

 embankment on the right-hand side and a twenty-foot 

 drop on the left down into the waters of Resurrection 

 Bay, we waited for a few instants with an uncomfortable 

 expectancy. But the car was brought to a stop, still on 

 the tracks. Examination showed that the earth had 

 been washed out from imder the rails by an unusually 

 high tide. It was almost miraculous that we had come 

 over in the heavily laden car without being derailed. 

 Fm-ther traffic was held up on the line for several days 

 until this damage could be repaired. 



Elting was obliged to hire dog-teams and sledges at 

 the upper lake and come over the pass on the snow, but 

 when Collins got to the same point a day later, the rail- 

 way was again in operation. 



We had all our trophies put in boxes and barrels for 

 the long freight out of Alaska, gave to the Game Warden 

 affidavits that we had not violated the laws and boarded 

 one of the regular steamships plying along the coast to 

 Seattle. 



