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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 





„ Photograph by D. B. Church 



MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY'S ALASKAN EXPEDITION AT 

 KODIAK, APTER HAVING COMPLETED THEIR WORK IN THE VALLEY 

 OP TEN THOUSAND SMOKES AND ON MT. KATMAI 



From left to right: Jasper D. Sayre, Botanist; Clarence F. Maynard, Topographer (Mr. 

 Maynard was the Topographer of the National Geographic Society Peruvian Expedition of 

 1915) ; D. B. Church, Photographer; Lucius G. Folsom, Assistant to the Director; Robert F. 

 Griggs (Chief of Expedition), Botanist; James S. Hine, Zoologist; J. W. Shipley, Chemist 

 (Mr. Shipley was granted a leave of absence from the Manitoba Agricultural College to 

 accompany the expedition) ; Paul R. Hagelbarger, Botanist; Andrean Yagashoff, Packer, and 

 Walter Matroken, Packer. 



chief reliance was the trusted stand-by 

 of the prospector, bacon and flapjacks. 

 Next came rice, oatmeal, beans, tea, 

 coffee powder, dried apples, apricots, and 

 dehydrated fruits, such as cranberries, 

 raspberries, and strawberries. Lunch 

 consisted of pilot bread, cheese, raisins, 

 kippered salmon, and milk chocolate, for 

 we stopped to cook only morning and 

 night. 



As an experiment, I included tinned 

 butter among our supplies. This proved 

 a boon, for it added greatly to the enjoy- 

 ment of flapjacks and served as a very 

 fair substitute for condensed milk on oat- 

 meal, etc. We could hardly have got along 

 without it in the Valley of Ten Thousand 

 Smokes, where we could fry no bacon. 

 A reflecting oven enabled us to bake 



bread and biscuits at the lower camps. 

 These proved very welcome, as experi- 

 ence has shown that the lack of bread and 

 butter is a deficiency in the diet so serious 

 as to become almost intolerable after a 

 time. 



These provisions proved very satisfac- 

 tory. All members of the party were in 

 perfect condition throughout the sum- 

 mer. Several of us gained in weight, and 

 one of the boys was 20 pounds heavier 

 than he had ever been before, despite the 

 fact that he had rather more than the 

 average of hard work. On the return 

 there was almost none of that insatiable 

 craving for a change of diet which is apt 

 to develop after a few weeks' use of con- 

 centrated rations. 



