122 ANTHROPOLOGICAL SURVEY IN ALASKA [bth. ann. 46 



perfectly charted that in weather that continued half rough it was 

 thought unwise to risk a landing. I felt this keenly, as the various 

 other impossibilities of the trip. But I could never forget all the 

 unexpected help I received from the Revenue Cutter Service, for 

 which I was deeply grateful, and had to acknowledge the justice of 

 the captain's position. We came, so near that the land birds from 

 the island were already about us, but then turned toward the 

 Pribilofs and Unalaska. . . 



Only little remains to be told. At the Pribilof Island, St. Paul, 

 we stopped at night, to take on four live fur seals for the Academy 

 of Sciences of San Francisco, and there we ran once more into 

 stormy weather. Here are a few notes from this period : 



August 27. Toward evening again a gale, southwest. At night 

 worse. Ship tossing rather wildly. No possibility to me of either 

 getting up or resting. Barely keep from being horribly ill again. 



Later in night ship had to be turned back and just drift. 



August 28. All day the storm continues. I could take no meals, 

 not even a drop of water. In bed and barely standing it. Ship 

 hove to at last and just drifting. 



August 29. Gale keeps on just as bad, howling till 1.30 a. m. 

 Then it moderates somewhat and ship starts going again. Last night 

 we were only 60 miles from Unalaska, now a good deal farther out. 

 Steam, still in half a gale and big sea, until after midday, when, not 

 without some difficulty and danger, we reach the fine little protected 

 harbor of Unalaska. Feel weak, near worn out. 



August 30, p. m. Rest, and all is well again. Secure a little row- 

 boat and go with old Pete Brant to near-by islands. Storm over 

 for the day and fair, though not entirely. Row, climb hills, pick 

 berries and mushrooms, watch a bearlike semiwild pig. out whole 

 afternoon, returning strengthened, refreshed. Only no appetite yet. 

 Found no traces of human occupancy, but heard of some in the 

 " Captains Bay " and at other spots. 



The few Aleuts in Unalaska at this time show physiognomies 

 akin to the braehycephalic Indian, and not the Eskimo type. 



August 31-September 1. A new gale, with drizzles. Luckily we 

 arc at a dock, but I can do little. They are cleaning the boilers and 

 coaling. Evening of 1st have a good dinner — captain and the rest 

 of us from the Bear's cabin — at a friendly local trader, Louis Strauss, 

 and after that give lecture on " Man's Origin, etc." Introduction 

 by Capt. Van Buskirk, local commodore of the Revenue Cutter 

 Service. Lecture well received, make numerous friends, get good 

 information. Strauss's supper was the first I could eat with some 

 taste and hunger. But the lecture did me good. 



September 2. Coaling and overhauling of boilers finished. Gale 

 topped. Ship leaves 1 p. in. Day fairly sunny. Everyone sees us 



