EXPLORATION IN ALASKA IN IQOJ — GILMORK. 13 



sented by him through the writer to the Smithsonian Institution. 

 The Rev. J. W. Chapman, of the same place, also had specimens in 

 his possession from this locality. 



It was planned before reaching Anvik to explore the area drained 

 bv the Anvik River, as some years previous, while visiting this 

 place. Mr. A. H. Brooks, of the U. S. Geological Survey, had been 

 shown fossils by the Indians said to have been collected along the 

 banks of this stream. Inquiry here among both the white and 

 native inhabitants, many of whom are thoroughly familiar with the 

 river and the country drained by it, developed the fact that, so far 

 as they knew, no fossils had ever been found in the region. Never- 

 theless, we ascended this stream some distance to fully satisfy our- 

 selves as to the conditions prevailing there, but nothing in the nature 

 of a fossil vertebrate was found. It appears quite probable that 

 the specimens shown Mr. Brooks came from the deposits near 

 Greyling. 



Upon our return to Anvik we were delayed some few days by 

 continued rains from resuming our journey down the Yukon. At 

 Holv Cross, a Catholic mission, fifty miles below Anvik, we were 

 told of the occurrence of large bones in the banks of one of the 

 sloughs leading to the portage to the Kuskokwim River. Difficulty 

 in securing the services of a competent guide deterred us from 

 making an investigation of this locality, which was some distance off 

 from the Yukon. 



Russian Mission was reached August 25, and Andreafski, where 

 our canoe trip ended, on August 29. The almost incessant rains, 

 accompanied by winds, during the last ten days of canoe travel were 

 the most annoying feature of the whole trip. On several occasions 

 it became necessary to go ashore and wait for the wind to abate, for 

 fear of being swamped by the high waves encountered. 



In the two months spent upon the Yukon and its tributaries, after 

 leaving Rampart, we traveled by canoe alone nearly fourteen hun- 

 dred miles. 



At Andreafski passage was secured on the river boat D. R. Camp- 

 bell, for St. Michael, which was reached September 1. 



Here it was learned fossils were occasionally found on the main- 

 land shore across the bay, and this area was investigated, but no 

 success was met with. 



Nome was reached by the local steamer Yale on September 7. 



The autumn season being too far advanced to undertake an ex- 

 ploration of the Eschscholtz Bay and Buckland River localities, we 

 took passage on the ocean steamer Nortlncesteni from Nome Sep- 

 tember 20, and Seattle, Washington, was reached on September 29. 



