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JOHN BURROUGHS 



snow-capped mountain peaks. Are your hands and feet 

 really warm? Is it true that there is no snow upon the 

 mountains ? " 



But balmier skies awaited us; the warmer currents of 

 the Pacific flowing up from Japan and the southern seas 

 were soon to breathe upon us; that pastoral paradise 

 Kadiak was soon to greet us. 



All the afternoon we steamed along the coast in smooth 

 seas, in full view of lofty snow-covered mountains with 

 huge glaciers issuing from out their loins. Late at night, 

 off against Kukak Bay, we put off a party of five or 

 six men who wished to spend a week collecting and 

 botanizing on the mainland. It looked like a perilous 

 piece of business, the debarkation of these men in the 

 darkness, in an open boat on an unknown coast many miles 



from shore. Might 

 they not miss the 

 bay ? Might they not 

 find the surf running 

 too high to land, or 

 might not some other 

 mishap befall them? 

 But after a hard pull 

 of several hours, they 

 made the shore in a 

 suitable landing place 

 and their days spent 

 there were in every 

 way satisfactory. 



On the morning of 

 July ist, we woke up 

 in Uyak Bay on the 

 north side of the 

 Island of Kadiak. The sky was clear and the prospect 

 most inviting. Smooth treeless green hills and moun- 



UYAK BAY, KADIAK ISLAND 



