INTRODUCTION XXV11 



Native settlements were visited at various places — of 

 Indians along the southwest coast from British Columbia 

 to Yakutat Bay, of Eskimo and Aleuts from Prince Wil- 

 liam Sound northward and westward. The shortness of 

 the stops precluded serious ethnological studies; still 

 numerous articles of interest were secured, and a series 

 of photographs of permanent value was obtained. Among 

 the latter, those showing the camps of Indian seal-hunters 

 in Glacier and Yakutat Bays, and those of the Eskimo 

 settlement at Plover Bay, Siberia, are worthy of special 

 mention. These Eskimo were living in primitive fashion, 

 clad in furs and dwelling in skin huts or topeks. 



A number of glaciers not previously known, as well as 

 many others which had been vaguely or imperfectly known, 

 were mapped, photographed, and described, and much evi- 

 dence was gathered of changes that have occurred in their 

 length and size. In many instances it was possible to com- 

 pare their condition and extent in 1899 with earlier records, 

 so as to discover and measure the changes; and in all cases 

 their relations to neighboring features were photographed 

 or otherwise recorded, so that future changes may be 

 readily determined. In Prince William Sound a new 

 fiord fifteen miles in length and abounding in glaciers was 

 discovered, photographed, and mapped. Its entrance, hid- 

 den by the huge projecting front of the Barry Glacier, was 

 disclosed by accident while we were attempting to photo- 

 graph the land attachments of the glacier. In honor of 

 the Expedition it was named Harriman Fiord. 



Owing to the great distances covered and the neces- 

 sarily short time allowed for stops little hunting was done. 

 Nevertheless two hunting parties were landed at Kadiak 

 Island, where Mr. Harriman had the good fortune to kill 

 a Kadiak bear, the only one secured by the Expedition and 

 the first ever measured and photographed in the flesh. 



In a voyage of this character, where many and diverse 



