BBDMCKA] WRITER'S TRIP ON YUKON 115 



words with the teacher, and one of the boys from our boat is already 

 calling me. 



Return at 11 a. m. and spend the rest of the day packing, finishing 

 just at supper. A curious sunset at 8, a horizontally banded suu, 

 several clear-cut, fairly broad, dark bands. Sea getting rougher. 



Sunday, August 15. Bad sea. wind, waves, fog. Have to take to 

 bed and do without breakfast. Stay in until lunch. We could not 

 stop again at Shishmareff ; could not get ashore. The next stop, late 

 afternoon, is to be at the Little Diomede, to take off Jenness; but if 

 too rough we shall go on to Teller. The wind is from the northwest 

 and the foghorn keeps on blowing. 



The whole day continues rough, foggy, unfriendly. The ship can 

 not stop at the Diomede, nor go to Teller; obliged to go to Nome. 

 After supper all chairs and movable articles have to be tied up. 

 Most day in bed, but escaped real seasickness, and got some sleep. 



Monday. 16. Weather moderated. We are in lee of the mountain- 

 ous part of Seward Peninsula. After breakfast off Nome, and at 

 11 a. m. in town.- First stop at Lomen's. Then from one to another 

 till 4.55 p. m., when Dan Sutherland, the Alaska Delegate to Con- 

 gress, escorts me to the boat. Saw many friends, got some mail, 

 and, best of all, got a fine deposit collection for the National Museum 

 from Mr. Carl Lomen. The judge asked me for another lecture for 

 next Saturday, when we are to see Nome for the last time. 



About 5 a. m. arrive at Golovnin Bay to take water. At this place 

 this is generally a day of partial rest and recreation for the crew T . 

 The water is taken from a small stream fed by a spring that comes 

 out from a cave of the mountain, and is put direct into the whale- 

 boats, brought to ship, and pumped into its tanks. 



Shortly after breakfast the captain gives us the larger motor boat, 

 and with Mr. Berg and two of the seamen I start for a little survey 

 trip along the northern shore of the bay. In less than an hour we 

 reach a sheltered nook with a small stream, where there is an old 

 frame dwelling with some out structures, all evidently abandoned, 

 though various articles of use hang or lie about, including several 

 guns of old patterns. 



On a bluff to the left of the house are six burials, some old, wood 

 near all rotten, some more recent. The latter, two in number, both 

 show a large animal skin covering of the body, besides which the 

 latter shows remnants of clothing. Secure two good skeletons, 

 practically complete; also head and a few parts of a newborn (or 

 near) child. A unique feature — with one of the male skeletons is 

 found a complete skeleton of an eagle. Could have got also a female 

 skeleton, but was still unclean, and we perceived a small native motor 

 boat coming toward us from the reindeer camp about l 1 /. miles 



