A HUNTER'S CAMP-FIRES 



formed a congenial party, and the largest cities in the United 

 States and England were generally represented : New York 

 City by five; Boston, two; Philadelphia, two; Chicago, one; 

 Pittsburg, three; Colorado Springs, four; Vancouver, one; and 

 England by three sportsmen. There were also half a dozen 

 others, who went either by earlier or later steamers; but in 

 spite of the number of parties the country was so extensive 

 that they interfered with each other very little, if any, after 

 scattering over the mountains from Telegraph Creek, the ulti- 

 mate outfitting point. 



Wrangel is situated on a comparatively small, wooded moun- 

 tainous-island named Wrangel Island, which is about five miles 

 from the mainland and in the vicinity of the mouth of the 

 Stikine River, up which a smaller river steamer was to take us 

 one hundred and eighty miles to Telegraph Creek. We arrived 

 in Wrangel at noon on August 13 th, and were obliged to re- 

 main over the next day until a leak in the hull of the Hudson 

 Bay Company's steamboat Hazelton was repaired. The fore- 

 noon of the day in the Alaskan village was spent in inspecting 

 a large salmon -cannery on the island, and the afternoon in 

 visiting the Indian graveyard and the various totem-poles in 

 the vicinity. This cannery was one of the largest operated by 

 the Alaskan Cannery Company, and at this time, which was 

 at the height of the salmon-run, was in full operation. The 

 superintendent of the cannery was very obliging, personally 

 conducting a party of passengers from the steamer through the 

 various departments. 



From the time that the salmon were unloaded from the fish- 

 ing-dories by Japanese and Indian fishermen, and the heads, 

 tails, and fins skilfully cut off. by experts in the first sheds, until 

 they were put into marketable form in labelled tins, they were 

 not touched by hand, but were rushed through the various 

 processes by machiner\^ with incredible speed. At the end of 

 the warehouses an enormous, old-fashioned, four-masted sailing- 



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