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anchor all day. Mr. Lopp came off and spent the da}- and night on 

 the ship. Stormy and unpleasant day. 



July 21: At anchor off Cape Prince of Wales. During the night 

 the sea calmed down, so that very early in the morning we commenced 

 the landing of the stores which had been brought to pay Mr. Lopp's 

 herders for their trip to Point Barrow in 1897-98, in the relief expe- 

 dition. The supplies having been landed, Mr. Lopp bade us good- 

 bye, and at 8.55 a. m. the anchor was hoisted and we steamed away 

 for Cape Blossom, Kotzebue Sound. 



Jul}^ 22: This morning, about 8 o'clock, we met the schooner General 

 McPherso7i^ loaded with miners en route from Kotzebue Sound to Cape 

 Nome. As the schooner had been taken oft' last fall contrar}^ to the 

 orders of the owners, and a warrant being out for her seizure, Lieu- 

 tenant Jarvis arrested the captain and placed Lieutenant Ballinger on 

 board with instructions to convey the vessel to St. Michael and deliver 

 it up to the court. It proved to be a warm, pleasant da}'. At 1.20 

 p. m. the ship anchored off Cape Blossom and very soon after, in com- 

 pany with Lieutenant Bertholf and Dr. Hawley, I was on my way to 

 the settlement, some 12 miles distant, which Ave reached about 8 o'clock. 

 As we came abreast of the Quaker Mission, Avhere from 200 to 300 

 miners Avere assembled, they gave three hearty cheers at our arrival, 

 knowing that the steam launch had on board their first mail this sea- 

 son. We soon learned that the Kotzebue mining district had not met 

 expectations. There Avere from 350 to 100 miners in the camp, three- 

 fourths of whom had had the scurvy and many of them Avere destitute. 

 There had been a large number of deaths from scurvy, droAvning, and 

 freezing. They Avere sick, Avithout means, and disheartened. Lieu- 

 tenant Bertholf and the surgeon immediately proceeded to investigate 

 the condition of things while I spent the time at the mission. ToAA-ard 

 morning the lieutenant came in and announced that he Avould take off 

 to the Bear 33 of the worst cases of scurvy. At 5 a. m., having been 

 up all night, a start was made to return to the ship, but the tide being 

 out the steam launch Avas soon aground and the part}' returned to the 

 A'illage. The lieutenant then hired a small stern-Avheel steamer to take 

 the miners off to the Bear. We finally left the shore about 10. 15 a. m. , 

 and reached the ship soon after noon. The captain, hearing of the sad 

 condition on shore, sent the steamer back for others. 



July 23: At 1.30 p. m. the steamer Arctic Bird arrived, bringing 33 

 scurvy-stricken men to the Bear. The men Avere taken on board, and 

 the steamer sent back to the camp for another load. It Avas a beauti- 

 ful day — temperature 65 — mosquitoes very bad on shore. I regretted 

 that I could not have remained on shore to attend the Eskimo scrA'ice 

 of the Quakers. 



July 21: At 3.15 a. m. the steamer Arctic Bird arrived Avith is men, 

 2 Avomen, and 1 babe, all destitute. At 5.20 a. m. Ave Avere under Avay 



