Collecting on Tchonkotsk Peninsula 

 By Jo Jin Koren 



(CONTINUED FROM LAST ISSUE.) 



THE spring and the first part of the summer, 1909, was more windy and 

 rainy than usual on the Behring Strait coast of Alaska. Although 

 these circumstances cannot be considered to be the most favorable ones for 

 the field collector, they might, 011 the other hand, have had some influence 

 as to the early "break-up" of the ice in the Behring Strait and adjoining 

 part of the Arctic Sea. For it is said that seldom has the navigation in. 

 these waters in the early summer been less troubled with ice than this year. 

 I had arranged passage with a small gasoline schooner named "Teddy 



"Teddy Bear," the Trading Schooner on which 

 I Made My Travels, 1909 



Bear" that was to leave early in June for a trading trip up the Arctic Coast 

 of Tchonkotsk Peninsula. The idea was to follow the ship as far as it 

 could get for the ice, and then go on shore to spend a few weeks till the 

 ship came back on its second "tour" to pick me up. 



When the appointed time for the departure came, and I was all ready to 

 leave, I learned to my disappointment that there were some preparations to 

 be done with the vessel, which would take a few days. That time being 

 past I was told it would take a few days more before the ship was wholly 

 fitted up, and so on till I in this way had been hanging around the City of 

 Nome more than two weeks before she really was ready to leave. During 



