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POET PKOTECTION, PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND. 

 A long and rather narrow inlet at the northwestern extremity 

 of the island. The bay is some three miles long and winds so that 

 the head of the inlet is sheltered from storms from any direction. 

 The country surrounding is extremely rough and rugged, and 

 the timber a mass of windfalls, so that traveling was difficult. 

 The beach is narrow and precipitous, so much so that we were 

 unable to establish a camp ashore, and were obliged to live on 

 the launch during our stay at this point. Several small streams 

 empty into the bay, none of them large enough to permit of 

 the salmon ascending much above tide-water. Along these 

 creeks there is a little meadow land. The forest presents the 

 usual combination of fir and hemlock, with a little cedar, and 

 alder along the beach. The broken hills surrounding the bay 

 culminate at the south in the high peak of Mt. Calder. We 

 remained at this point from May 6 to 10, and though the alders 

 were beginning to bud, and a little green grass to appear in 

 favored spots, the snow still la}' deep in the woods. Land birds 

 were extremely scarce. 



SHAKAN AND CALDER BAY. 

 Shakan is a small settlement on Kosciusko Island, at the 

 northwestern extremity of Prince of Wales Island. Calder Bay 

 is a long inlet extending some six or eight miles north of Shakan. 

 In a straight line these places are not more than twenty-five 

 miles from Port Protection, and the character of the country is 

 essentially the same. We ran traps and collected birds at three 

 different points in this vicinity, at the Calder Marble quarry, 

 but a short distance from Shakan, at the head of Calder Bay, 

 and at the entrance of Klawak Passage, the exceedingly 

 narrow channel between Kosciusko and Prince of Wales islands. 

 The weather was stormy during the whole of our stay at this 

 point. May 10 to 14 ; in fact we were waiting here, in comparative 

 shelter, for the weather to settle and permit us to reach Coro- 

 nation Island, our next objective point. 



CORONATION ISLAND. 

 A small island lying south and west of the southern extremity 

 of Kuiu, and al)out forty miles southwest of Shakan. We 



