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each day but no considerable downpour. We came into 

 the island-studded and mountain-locked harbor from the 



TREE-CAPPED ISLETS NEAR SITKA. 



north and saw the town with its quaint old government 

 buildings and its line of Indian houses close to the beach, 



REAR VIEW OF GREEK CHURCH, SITKA. 



outlined against a near-by background of steep high spruce- 

 covered and snow-capped mountains, with the white vol- 



