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operations and were closing up. We also 

 brought the cannery employees along, most of 

 them being Chinese or "Chinks," as they are 

 called by the natives. 



We made long stops at Juneau, the capital 

 of Alaska, and at Katchikan, Glacier Bay, and 

 other salmon fishing ports. Katchikan is a 

 town built on stilts where a very large cannery 

 is in operation. Here we took on a thousand 

 or more cases of canned salmon and eighty- 

 three cases of fresh halibut, each case weigh- 

 ing eight hundred pounds. This was billed 

 through to China. Just imagine three hun- 

 dred and thirty-two tons of fresh halibut being 

 shipped all the way to the land of Confucius. 



At Wrangle we stopped for a while, took 

 on some cargo, and thoroughly investigated 

 this quaint old town. Two days before our 

 arrival at Seattle we awoke in the morning to 

 find a steamer following behind us closely, and 

 we saw that she was trying to pass us. It was 

 the Steamer Admiral Sansom bound from 

 Seward to Seattle. It was believed that she 

 would have some hunters aboard of her from 

 the Kenai Peninsula. A wireless message 

 from our boat was sent to her asking if Mr. 

 Wilson Potter was on board. A reply came 

 back almost instantly: 



