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exposed at low tide. The timber comes down to the water 's edge, 

 where it is fringed by a strip of beach grass, and is everywhere 

 dense and impenetrable except on the extremity of the point on 

 which our camp was located. Here the woods are fairly open. 

 We stayed here from July 18 to 26. 



PORT ST. JOHN, ZAEEMBO ISLAND. 

 After staying one night at the town of Wrangell (July 26) 

 we went on to Port St. John, at the north end of Zarembo 

 Island. This bay is about a mile long and something less than 

 half that in width ; but at low tide more than two-thirds of it is 

 mud flats. Two small streams empty into the head of the inlet, 

 and on the west side there is a spring of mineral water. The 

 surrounding slopes are densely wooded, mostly with spruce and 

 hemlock, for there is but little cedar just at this point, and there 

 is the usual tangle of more or less dense underbrush. There is 

 no meadow land anywhere in the vicinit3^ Deer are abundant 

 on the island, but as it is a favorite hunting ground of the 

 people at AVrangell, we found the bucks pretty w^ell thinned out. 

 There was some wolf sign, but no indication of bears. We were 

 on Zarembo Island from July 27 to August 1. 



MITKOF ISLAND. 



On August 1 we left Port St. John, and sailed north through 

 Wrangell Narrows, around the north end of IMitkof Island, 

 and south along the east side, to a point about midway of the 

 island. Here we established a camp on the beach, at a place 

 lying between two small rivers. There is no meadow land in 

 the vicinity, and the trapping, as well as most of the bird 

 collecting, was done along the beach. There were quantities of 

 drift strewn along the shore, and a broad strip of beach grass, 

 both together affording food and shelter to quantities of white- 

 footed and meadow mice. The southward migration of the birds 

 had begun' at this time, and they were fairly abundant along the 

 edge of the woods. Farther back in the timber, even along the 

 streams, both birds and mammals were scarce. The salmon were 

 running at the time of our visit, and as no Indians had been 

 hunting or trapping in the vicinity, bear were fairly abundant. 



