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pied in seven or eight years. Why not, 

 therefore, secure some of these totem poles 

 for the museums of the vari- ., .^ / 



ous colleges represented by 

 members of the expedition? 

 This was finally agreed 

 upon, and all hands, includ- 

 ing the ship's crew, 

 fell to digging up and 

 floating to the ship 

 five or six of the 

 more striking poles. 

 This occupied us till 

 the night of the 27th. 

 Under this date I 

 find this note in my note-book: 



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TOTEM POLES, DESERTED 

 VILLAGE. 



:; J§pP 



CHIEF S HOUSE, DESERTED VILLAGE. 



"All day 

 on shore 

 by the deserted Indian 

 village. Clear and hot. 

 I sit in the shade of the 

 spruces amid huge logs 

 of driftwood on the 

 upper edge of the 

 beach, with several In- 

 dian graves at my back, 

 under the trees, and 

 write up my notes — 

 the ship at anchor out 

 in the bay a mile away. 

 Aided by the sailors the 

 men are taking down 

 totem poles and towing 

 them to the ship with 

 the naphtha launches. 

 As I write there are 



