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off. Harbor and hills look fine, though sky again clouded. Outside 

 quite a swell alter the gales. Pass the Haida, practicing with her 

 cannon. The AUjonkhn was here too, with the story of their visit to 

 the Punuk Islands. The fresh green steep mountains toward the 

 entrance of the harbor are refreshing to the eye. 



Pass through Akitan. Pass picturesque, especially the outstanding 

 isolated rocks near the islands. 



Toward evening, far to the left (east), see under the clouds a 

 glorious icy cone, the " Pogrovemoi," and later a lower but still great 

 mountain a little farther and to the right an old but not so very old 

 volcano. Other volcanoes there are, the captain tells me, now hidden 

 by the low clouds. 



Have a new passenger, Mr. Charles Brower, the trader of Barrow. 

 Came from the Brower, ship of his own company, a little larger and 

 faster than the Bear, and going also to San Francisco, but with 

 poorer accommodations. Brings with him a box of archeological 

 specimens from the Barter Island, in the north. Examine them, but 

 find little of special interest. 



It takes us a little less than 10 days of a fairly good journey to 

 reach San Francisco. Dock at Oakland late in the evening. The 

 next morning, after breakfast, the boxes and barrels with collections 

 are taken on the dock — a big pile. Then the Santa Fe officials 

 kindly run a flat freight car to the pile, the boxes, etc., are loaded 

 on, the main part taken to the freight depot, the most valuable ones 

 to express, shipped, and shortly after what remains of the expedi- 

 tion is on the Santa Fe Limited for Chicago. It only needs to 

 be added that, notwithstanding the variety of receptacles and the 

 difficulties of packing, the collections reached the Institution with- 

 out damage to a single specimen. Thanks once more for the help 

 received in making all safe to the captain and officers of the Bear, to 

 Mr. Berg, the best of boatswains, to the carpenter, and to all those of 

 the crew who assisted. 



THE YUKON TERRITORY— SITES, THE INDIANS, THE 



ESKIMO 



The Tanana 



brief historical data 



The Tanana is the largest tributary of the Yukon. It is over 

 600 miles in length, and in its breadth, though not in its volume, it 

 appears to equal, if not to exceed, the Yukon at their junction. The 

 first white men to see the mouth of the Tanana were the Russian 

 traders (about 1860), followed before long by the employees of the 



