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1. Dickman 



A BRANCH 01? SALMON-BERRIES, INDICATING THE PROFUSION OF WILD BERRIES AT 



KODIAK SINCE THE ERUPTION 



These berries are somewhat like the persimmon, in that the}' have an astringent taste 

 that disappears only when they are dead ripe. They have, however, a distinctive and 

 extremely delicate flavor, and when served with sugar and cream equal or surpass any other 

 berry with which the author is acquainted. 



shoots were seen coming up from the 

 roots. 



When we arrived at the village, the 

 magnitude of the flood was impressed on 

 us as it could not he in the brush-covered 

 dunes. The church where the people had 

 worshiped undisturbed for years was 

 standing in a sea of liquid mud. The 

 high-water mark could be plainly seen 

 across the front about five feet and a half 

 from the ground. 



Some of tbe native houses were filled 

 solid full to tbe eaves with pumice. Some 

 had been completely submerged, as might 

 be seen by the stranded pumice which 

 had floated onto their roofs. The roof 

 of one had been floated away from the 

 body of the house and lay at a little dis- 

 tance. The church had evidently floated 

 free from its foundation, for the high- 

 water marks across it were somewhat 

 diagonal (see opposite page). 



A RIVER FIVE MILES WIDE AND FIVE 

 INCHES DEEP 



The river, whose former bed was close 

 by the houses, had subsided from the 

 flood condition enough to show its char- 

 acter. Where formerly was deep water 

 was now a maze of quicksands and inter- 

 twining streams. So much material had 

 been dumped into it that the level of its 

 bottom was several feet above its former 

 channel. We could see no indication of 

 the farther bank. Somewhere out be- 

 yond the range of our vision were one or 

 more main channels in which a formida- 

 ble volume of water was running, as we 

 later found to our cost. But except for 

 these shifting main channels it could be 

 described as five miles wide and five 

 inches deep. 



We ventured far out from shore to see 

 whether it would be possible to cross, but 



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