Vardens 

 by the 



The Days of a Man Cigoj 



sharks and of sting rays also occur in these deposits, 

 which, I am incHned to think, were probably laid 

 down under conditions similar to those now observ- 

 able at Wrangel. 



Trout of different species abound everjrwhere in 

 Alaska. The Dolly Varden — Salvelinus malma — 

 and the steelhead — Salmo gairdneri — swarm in the 

 sea, ascending all the rivers. At Skagway I saw a 

 little girl take a bent pin baited with a worm, drop it 

 into the gutter through a knot hole in the sidewalk, 

 and thereby land two Dolly Vardens — very small 

 ones, it is true, but evidence of their abundance. At 

 Dolly one time Harold brought in on the whaleboat enough 

 Dolly Vardens averaging nine pounds each to furnish 

 a meal for the whole ship's crew. These he had got 

 from a salmon "pound-net" on Prince of Wales 

 Island, where they were to be thrown away as a 

 nuisance. 



On the large island of Revillagigedo,^ the Alaska 

 Packers' Association maintains a cannery at the vil- 

 lage of Loring and near by a hatchery on the Naha, a 

 fine salmon stream which flows through four beautiful 

 lakes on its way to the sea. Above the uppermost of 

 Lake these. Lake Jordan,^ about five miles long by three 

 Jordan wide, salmon spawn by the million in the fall, and in 

 it the young seem to spend the first of the four years 

 of their life. 



At ebb tide the Naha drops vertically twenty feet 

 or so over a ledge of rock into the Straits. But with 

 the rise of about thirty feet of water at the flood, the 

 cascade is more than obliterated, and for a time a 



1 Dedicated like the group of the same name off the coast of Mexico to an 

 early Spanish explorer. 



2 Named for me by Henry W. Fortmann, president of the Alaska Packers' 



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