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tion, Mr. Harriman, and to the equally cheerful and oblig- 

 ing temper of Captain Doran. The pleasure of the party 

 was the pleasure of our host and of the Captain. The ship 

 was equally at the service of men who wanted to catch 

 mice or collect a new bird, as of those who wanted to sur- 

 vey a glacier or inlet or shoot a bear. One day it made 

 a voyage of sixty miles to enable our collectors to take 



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up some traps, the total catch of which proved to be 

 nine mice. The next day it was as likely to go as far to 

 enable Ritter and Saunders to dredge for new forms of 

 sea life, or Devereux to inspect some outcropping of 

 copper ore. Early in the voyage our committee on en- 

 tertainment got up a course of lectures. Nearly every 

 night at eight o'clock, some one of our college professors 

 or government specialists held forth upon the upper deck 

 or in the Social Hall. One night it was Dall upon the 

 history or geography of Alaska; then Gilbert upon the 

 agency of glaciers in shaping the valleys and mountains, 

 or upon the glaciers we had recently visited; then Brewer 



