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the whole of this time the ship 

 was "supposed" to sail in "a cou- 

 ple of days" or as soon as she was 

 ready, so fearing to lose the chance 

 I could not leave for longer ex- 

 cursions; and as the surroundings 

 of Nome are a very poor collect- 

 ing field — most every square foot 

 of ground having been or is op- 

 erated with machinery of all kind 

 and descriptions in the gold-min- 

 ing line — I lost in this way the 

 most valuable two weeks of the 

 season. 



At last I got onboard, though, 

 and with a nice southwest breeze 

 " Teddy Bear " ploughed her way 

 up the Behring Strait. But the 

 wind soon became more fresh 

 than agreeable and developed into 

 a gale, and as it grew foggy be- 

 sides we had to seek shelter and 

 anchored therefore on the western 

 coast of Big Diomede June 24, 

 after 18 hours sailing from Nome. 



In form and nature the two Diomedes are very much alike, the west- 

 ern one only being so much bigger than the other. Only in a few places are 



I/ittle Diomede Island. My Own pTent in the 

 Foreground 



I,east Auks on the I,ittle Diomede 



