The Kadiak Bear and his Home 



Merriam had a .45-70 and a .50110 Winchester, 

 both shooting half-jacketed bullets. My rifles 

 were a .30-40 Winchester, a double .577, and a 

 double .40-93-400, kindly lent me by Mr. S. 

 D. Warren, of Boston, and on which I relied. 

 Besides the pocket cameras and a small Goerz, I 

 carried one camera with double lenses of I7j^-inch 

 focus, and one with single lense of 3O-inch focus. 

 The last two were, of course, intended for animals 

 at long range. 



Hoping to prove something in regard to the 

 weight of the Kadiak bear, I brought a pair of 

 Fairbanks spring scales, weighing up to 300 

 pounds, and some water-tight canvas bags for 

 weighing blood and the viscera. 



We selected two good men as hunters for the 

 trip, Vacille and Klampe. 



On the second day out from Wood Island a 

 storm came on, and though the Maksoutoff was 

 staunch, we could not hold for our port, owing to 

 the exposed coast, where squalls come sweeping 

 without warning from the mountain tops, driving 

 the snow down like smoke, the so-called "wollies." 

 It was wild and wintry enough when we turned into 

 the sheltered protection of Steragowan Harbor. 



A few mallards and a goose were here added to 

 the ship's store next morning from the flats, and 



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