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There is, or perhaps I should say has 

 been, gold in this part of Alaska. I know 

 2 young fellows who rocked out $4,480 in 

 about 15 days on the beach. Another 

 friend took out $16 from a bucketful of 

 beach sand. However, I do not advise 

 anyone to come here next year expecting 

 to find gold on the beach. It has been 

 thoroughly turned over, and besides there 

 will undoubtedly be a great rush of 

 men here next year. The claims on the 

 creeks are only worked from the middle 

 of June until the latter part of September. 



There is not much to interest a sports- 

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 of mountains at the head of the Kogoluk- 

 tuk. However, we only found the sheep 

 the day before we were to start on our re- 

 turn trip, and could not spend any time 

 hunting them. We saw many signs of otters 

 and wolverines, but did not get sight of 

 any. We had to travel on skis, or snow- 

 shoes. The skis made much a grating on 

 the crisp snow that a wolverine could hear 

 us long before we could see him. 



About the only shooting we had except 

 the ducks and geese in summer were 

 ptarmigans. In the early fall the old cock 

 ptarmigans are as gamy as could be 

 wished. When flushed they start up 

 with a cackle that is rather startling. One 

 does not like to shoot ducks in the breed- 

 ing season, but in Kotzebue it was duck or 

 no meat, and there was so much scurvy in 

 the country that fresh meat was almost a 

 necessity when we could get it. 



E. L.. Stevenson, Cape Nome, Alaska. 



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