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having as yet been to the Pribilofs. The following week was consumed in Unalaska 

 taking in coal. Tlie Albatross left Unalaska on June 23, and on June 25 we were 

 landed at the village, St. Paul Island. The rookeries near the village were inspected 

 the same afternoon. 



Thanks to the zeal and courtesy of the Treasury agent, Mr. J. B. Crowley, and 

 the company's general agent, Mr. J. Stanley-Brown, a small drive of seals was at once 

 arranged for the following morning. Mr. F. W. True, of the United States National 

 Museum, and I partook in the drive, which lasted from 2 o'clock in the morning to 10 

 a. m. At 1 p. m. I embarked again on the Albatross and steamed at once away for 

 Bering Island; anchored off the main village on July 3, and on the 4th, with Captain 

 Drake and Mr. 0. H. Townsend, went per dog-sledge to the great North Eookery. 

 After having landed my effects, the Albatross left on the following day. 



My next trip to the North Rookery was per boat, in company with Governor 

 Grebnitski, on July 7. On July 15 I again proceeded to the same rookery in 

 dog-sledge, returning to the main village by the same means July 20. Bad weather 

 prevented the carrying out of my intentions of visiting the South Eookery at this tijne. 

 On July 27 I took passage on the Russian Seal Skin Company's steamer KotiJc, Oapt. 

 C. E. Lindquist, for Copper Island, and on July 30, in company with the governor, 

 Mr. Grebnitski, who bore the expense of the trip, started from the main village on an 

 open-boat expedition around the island. Spent the evening and the next morning at 

 the sea otter rookery. July 31 and August 1 were devoted to inspecting and 

 photographing the Karabelni rookeries and August 2 to 11 to the Glinka rookeries, 

 the latter being the more important ones, finishing the circumnavigation August 12. 

 On the steamer Kotilc I then returned to Bering Island, anchoring off the North 

 Eookery August 13. Visited the South Rookery August 17, securing photographs 

 and a map of the rookery. On August 18 I called on board the British cruiser of the 

 third class Porpoise, Commander Francis E. Pelly (doing patrol service on the 30-mile 

 limit), then at anchor off Nikolski. On August 21 I went in dog-sledge to the North 

 Rookery, returning two days later. The captain of the Porpoise having kindly offered to 

 take me to Petropaulski, I gladly accepted his offer, as it was somewhat doubtful whether 

 the Eotih, in which I intended to return to San Francisco, would be able to call at the 

 islands before going home, and I did not dare to risk the possibility of wintering on 

 Bering Island. I arrived in Petropaulski August 25. The company's agent having 

 decided to make another trip to the islands, I returned in the Kotilc, and was thus 

 enabled to again inspect the Bering Island South Rookery on September 9 and the 

 North Rookery September 16, being back in Petropaulski September 18, which port I 

 left on September 24 in the Kotik, bound for San Francisco, where I arrived on 

 October 11. 



The weather was unprecedentedly stormy and rainy during my entire stay at 

 the islands and interfered greatly with my work. The great distances between the 

 habitations and the rookeries and the primitive means of transportation also added to 

 the difflculties, while much valuable time was lost owing to the uncertainty of the 

 movements of the steamer. 



Under such adverse circumstances I should have been unable to accomplish even 

 what I did had it not been for the kind assistance I received on all sides. 



The itinerary for 1896, in so far as it relates to the Russian Fur-seal Islands, is 

 as follows: Leaving Dr. Jordan and his associates of the Pur-Seal Investigation 



