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also said to harbor numerous breeding sea birds. On June 4, 5 

 and 6, we made abortive efforts to reach the island, but were 

 as often prevented by the continual stormy weather, and driven 

 for shelter into various uncharted bays on the west coast of 

 Dall Island. On June 6 Ave made our last attempt, but an 

 impending southeaster drove us once more around the north 

 end of Dall Island. 



POET McLean, prince of wales island. 



We dropped anchor at the head of this long, narrow fiord, 

 near the southern extremity of Prince of Wales Island, at about 

 11 p. m. on June 6. A hasty inspection of the place early 

 the next morning revealed dense, impenetrable forest, with 

 rocky, forbidding shores, with no indication of bird or animal 

 life. 



DUKE ISLAND. 



At the southern extremity of the Alexander Archipelago. 

 We anchored on the north side of the island, which is Cjuite 

 flat. There is a thin fringe of timber near the beach ; inland 

 there appeared to be but a scattering growth of scrubby pines. 

 Several very small streams emptied in the vicinity of our 

 anchorage. jMost of the drainage seemed to be toward the 

 other side of the island. There was no meadow land anywhere 

 in the vicinity. We remained here from June 7 to 9. 



MARTEN ARM, BOCA DE QUADRA. 

 Boca de Quadra is a long and very narrow inlet or fiord 

 piercing the mainland coast at what is almost the southermost 

 extremity of Alaska. Its walls are steep and precipitous in 

 the extreme, so much so that for miles there is not a foot of 

 beach where a landing could be effected, the dense forest 

 growing down to within a few feet of the high-tide mark, where 

 the rocky walls drop perpendicularly into the water. AVe 

 ascended to the head of Marten Arm, a southern branch of the 

 inlet, where we established a camp, some twenty-five miles from 

 the coast. Here, at its head, are hundreds of acres of grassy 

 flats, cut up by innumerable gullies and ditches, full of water 

 at high tide. A large river flows down the center of the valley, 



