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interest, it is a most beautiful mountain, a nearly regular cone ris- 

 ing almost from the water's edge for many thousand feet, and cov- 

 ered with glaring white snow from very near the base. 



We spent the whole day at Port Graham, and the tide had run a 

 long way out when we tied up. So it was overalls and rubber boots 

 and a tine hunt of a couple of hours before breakfast. Then a 

 hurried breakfast and three hours more of hunting. The collecting 

 was good everywhere, so I could begin beneath the wharf and work 

 either way. I found Argobucciimin (^Priene) oregonensis Redfield, 

 in quantity on the beach, and their numbers made me miss an im- 

 portant possibility. I had secured a considerable number of these 

 shells in dredgings in Puget Sound, but the temptation to take more, 

 which I suppose is the miserly instinct common to most collectors, 

 induced me to throw a lot of them above the tide-line to be jjicked 

 up later. "When the tide had come up beyond the limits of profitable 

 collecting I began to gather in this bunch of shells. Then I found 

 among them four fine specimens of Chrysodomus liratus Martyn, 

 which I had overlooked in my hurry, though they are so different 

 that I cannot understand my blunder. It would have been more 

 profitable to have hunted the beaches over for this last species, of 

 which I have little doubt that I could have found as many as I could 

 have cleaned for transportation. 



At Port Graham 1 also found in quantity Astarte roUandi Ber- 

 nardi. This fine shell I had not seen before, and I was glad to add 

 it to my collection. The Indians were running around on the beach 

 and in their bydarkas, and some of them watched me cleaning my 

 catch. 1 have no doubt that my actions were a puzzle to them. 

 None of them could be induced to talk any English, even if they 

 knew any. However, by laying down ten cents and then tying an 

 Astarte, then making use of a sign language invented for the occa- 

 sion, I was able to interest a small native, and I finally kept him 

 tying my bivalves for a couple of hours. With his help my day's 

 work ran from 4 a. m. to 4 p. m., with very short intermissions for 

 breakfast and lunch, so that on this day at least I felt very tired and 

 very virtuous and slept the sleep of the just during the long night 

 following. 



Every hour of our 8000 miles of water travel was most enjoyable, 

 as were the intervening stops, and from the point of view of a col- 

 lector the trip was eminently profitable. I secured representatives 



