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safe from beasts of prey, what kind of a man would we 
think he was if he did not very soon fix a place where 
they would be safe, 
We should. to draw it mildly, think he was very im- 
provident and negligent. Is it any less improvident and 
negligent for this country not to provide a place for its 
rapidly diminishing salmon where they will be safe? It 
seems to the writer that not a day ought to be lost, but 
that if it is possible to provide a place where our salmon 
can resort unharmed and remain safely their allotted 
time, it should be given them without hesitation. If there 
is such an asylum of refuge within our borders, by all 
means secure it for the salmon and let the salmon have 
it for an eternal heritage. 
Is there such a place within the limits and jurisdiction 
of the United States? The writer can say from personal 
knowledge that there is one place at least. Most fortun- 
ately for us Americans there is in our Alaskan possessions 
just such a place as is wanted—probably more than one— 
and so exceptionately fortunate is America in this respect 
that it is not likely that this side of the frozen and unin- 
habited shores of the Arctic, it can be duplicated many 
times in the possessions of all the nations of the earth 
combined, which significant circumstance, allow me to 
add in passing, goes to show how near the world has 
reached the extreme limit of its salmon supply. 
The locality which the writer has in mind is an Island 
in the North Pacific about 750 miles nearly due west of 
Sitka. Its name is Afognak, and it is the northernmost 
of the two largest islands of the group, called the Kadiak 
Islands. It lies just north of latitude 58° and between 
152° and 153° west longitude. It is a small island. prob- 
ably not over fifty miles across at its widest part, but 
there are several streams flowing from various points of 
the island to the surrounding ocean. and at the proper 
season contain salmon innumerable. It is no exaggeration 
to say that salmon swarm up these streams in countless 
