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TWO HUNDRED MILES UP THE KUSKOKWIM 



and keep her off the banks at the bends. The scenery was very 

 beautiful, the view bounded on either side by well- shaped moun- 

 tains, green with sphagnum, rising from the plain below, with 

 snow still resting on them in patches. The region was " one vast 

 solitude, over which bears and birds hold undivided sway." On 

 July 26 the voyagers took dinner at the deserted village of 

 Aziavigamute, and then made their way in a short time to Togiak 

 bay, having occupied three days in crossing the divide. " Brother 

 Weinland shot some ducks and four geese, and the natives speared 

 a large salmon." 



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Subsequently the missionaries made a trip up the Togiak river, 

 which occupied two days, and after visiting several villages with 

 polysyllabic names they returned to the coast, where they found 

 a hamper from their friends of the Alaska Commercial Company 

 (bless them !) which " contained thirty good cigars (it seems the 

 brethren smoke), four large cakes of tobacco, two tins of boiled 

 oysters, two of corned beef, one of fresh boiled beef, three tins of 

 sardines, one of peaches, one of corn, and one of peas." 



So the record runs. 



