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FOREST AND STREAM. 



rtffia 2, 1886. 



HUNTING AND TARGET RIFLES. 



Sdltor Forest and Stream: 



I note witii pleasure Qw communication, of F. M. Wilcox in your 

 ls3UQ of Nov. is, on tlic subject of hunting rifles. It is somewhat 

 refreshing to know that there are men "who, although they belie\'e 

 t]ie muzzleloader vastly superior to the breechloader as a hunting 

 ■weapon, yet can discuss the subject in a temperate manner. It, 

 has baen asserted repeatedly in Forest and Stream that a rornd 

 ball of a ffiven diameter is much more deadly in its effects enlarge 

 gam© than an elonafaced bullet of the same caliber. This Is the 

 pet theory of the muzzleloader advocates, and it has not been 

 denied in any connnunieatioji appearing in this journal since I 

 have been a subscrrocr tiicreto. In gpite of this theory, which has 

 been allowed to stand unehallenged as sn invincible argument in 

 favor of the muz;:ieloader, its sponsors gj'avely tell us tlaat the 

 elongated bullet will tear small game to pieces, and leave it almost 

 ■unfit for food. There seems to be a contradii;tion here. Will some 

 one kindly explain why the round ball tears a large hole in a deer 

 »nd it drops "dead in its tracks, while a long bullet of the same 

 diameter cuts a clean hole through the animal, which then pro- 

 ceeds to run away, and the hungry hunter goes minus his supper, 

 "While the same pmctice on squirrels and turkeys has the opposite 

 result V 



I have often heard ad\'ocated (and more especially among the 

 muzzleloading fraternity) the praciice of using greatly reduced 

 charges of powder for squirrel shooting. This I believe to be a 

 positive di3advaut:>.ga in any rifle, as tlie reduction of powder will 

 incrsase rh'3 curve and decrease ilie accuracy of tlie shoo'ting at 

 unknown distances. Even in target shooting at knowi distances 

 I would advocate the maximum charge of po^\vder ti'ic gun could 

 be made to utilize -without causing irregular sliooting. Ic has been 

 my practice during the past four or five years to use lOSgrs. of 



f>owder in all target matches at iOOyds. range. The rifle is a breech- 

 oader, and I use the s-ame charge at 500 or 1,000yds. If I were to 

 reduce LUe oiiarge of po i dej' 1 would expect to get correspondingly 

 Inferior shooting at lOUyds. Ti.is does not refer to shooting at the 

 popular targrjta, wiierc it is possible to get so-called perfect 

 scores, but to string meastirement, where trie distance of each shot 

 from the center of the target is accurately measnrod and ci-ediled 

 to the shoosc.r. The same holds good with the hunting i-ifle. It 

 ■will do its best worlc with its maximum powder charge, regardless 

 of distance. 



In regard to weight and caliber, I tliink Mv. AY. is on tlie riglit 

 track, and although his views in regard to tJie merits of the .33-cal. 

 may be a little extreme, I fully indorse ■«'hat he ^ays in regard to 

 the weight of an aU-around himting ■weapon, bike "Nessmuk" 

 »nd many others, I prefer to go light in my hunting and fishing 

 trips. My shotgun weigiis 63.4 lbs. It is a single breechloader, 12- 



fauge, and handles very nicely. I am satisfied with its execution. 

 I7 rilie weighs a small fraction over Slbs. It is too heavy, but, 

 bfiing .40-cal., if lighter it AvoiOd kicii. The fault is in the caliberi 

 1\uia gun shoota tiO grains of poN^der and a hollow pointed bullet of 

 8<43 grains, a little bettor than a proportion of one to four. It is a 

 •ingle breechloader with barrel 21in. long, and balances well for a 

 gtm of its -weight. And right here is wliere t he rejieaters are lack- 

 ing. They balance badly because the barrel is too far away from 

 the shooter. The entire gun is too long for its length of barrel. 

 As there may be many readers of Fobest and Stream who own 

 lon^ barreled target rifles and would prefer a handy hunting rifle, 

 I "Will tell ttiem how to make the change. Get an 8in. hack saw 

 and saw off a piece from tlie muzzle end of the barrel so as to re- 

 duce its length to about 34dn. File oft square and polisli ^xith fine 

 emery paper. Countersink slightly to take off the burr Inside the 

 bore." G-et the lightest buUet j^du can find in the market to fit tlie 

 fiin. If such cannot be found and you have a, mould, drill a hole 

 in same and insert a plug, so as to make a lioUow pointed bullet. 

 If this bullet is too heavy to give the desired proportion of powder 

 and lead, get a mo-ald made. Have a set of Lyman sights, front 

 and back, attached to your rifle, and you AviU probably have a 

 better hunting rifle than you could have induced the manufacturers 

 to make for you. My choice of the rifles now on the market would 

 ■fae a Maynard .35-55-170, or a Bemington .33-40-120, or a Wincliester 

 .38-90-217. E. A. Leopold. 



NORRISTO-WN, Pa., Nov. 21. 



Udltor Forest and Sf.ream: 



I have read the letter of Dr. F. M. AVilcox, in your issue of the 

 18th, with a good deal of iuterost. Not a word have I to sayagainst 

 his theory so far as it goes. But sportsmen, like women, are, in a 

 great many instances, wcthled to fasliion, and before we <;an induce 

 our hunters to abandon their magazine and large-bore weapons 

 the fashion must change. Now before the fashion changes some 

 one must set the fashion, and ihat some cnic must be a man or 

 club of good repute. I know every sportsman wlio has given the 

 question a thought, knows that the game is as sui-ely and certainly 

 doomed as the Indian. All we can do is to ward off as long us 

 possible the day of doom. Time will be when the hunter will not 

 shoot his game. He will see it, steal up nrjun it and go away to 

 ■tell rouud the camp-fire, not what he killed, but what he saw. 1 

 do not say that i-.e viill not take a shot at it, but the sliot will not 

 he with the rifle bnf with a camera! Smile if you will at the idea, 

 but when a red dcov -^111 he worth a htmdi'ed dollars and a butffilo 

 "worth a tliousand, paradoxical as ii may seem, it -will not pay to 

 Ttill them. "Time enough yet to think of that," I hear some one 

 say. Well, perhaps so; but these very people now say: "If our 

 grandfathers had only been a little more careful of our forests, 

 they would not boon the verge of extinction (from an economic 

 point of view) to-day. Now, Mr. EtliLor, the first gun I ever had 

 •was a foot or more longer than the owner, and I have used one 

 ever since. I ha\'e hunted \v-iiite bears and walrus in their own 

 ice fields, and deer in our northern woods, and although mine may 

 be an exceptional case, 1 never had any use for a repeater. For ice 

 bears a heavy bore is necessary, the one I used lately being a Sny- 

 der. And to those who go to such out-of-the-way places for sport 

 I say take a whole armory with you if you like. But to the nine 

 hundred and ninety-nine ^vho are satisfied wth a few weeks' deer 

 hunting near horns. I heartily indorse Mr. Wilcox's statements 

 re a small bore for deer— not on the ground that it is more deadly, 

 but tliat it is dearlly enough. Give the deer a chance, and if you 

 meet a hound in uv- luisli the caliber is quite large enough to pre- 

 vent its ever IcaA-i ng rliere. We cannot expect to be able to induce 

 the present generation to anaiulon tlie breechloader, but is it not 

 possible to induce our sportsmen to abandon the magazine gun and 

 use a small-bore singleloader? 



Now, I.lr, Editor, tnis is a rambling way of stating the case, but 

 you know what I mean and you can do more by "writing it up" 

 than any one else. You can help to make the single smallbore 

 breechloader "fashionable." Trade Ball. 



Editor Forefit and Stream: 



Cartainly Mr. W. M. Wilcox "fired off" a big gun in your last 

 issue. I can't see tiie mat'ier in the light he does. He claims 

 a lo\\- trajectory to be a benefit to tlie hunter. This is ?J1 right. 

 I agree \'.ith him; but is there noi such a thing as gettiuer it too 

 low? I believe that by using too much powder the bullet is upset 

 M such an extent t lia"^ it "flies -wild," consequently what you gain 

 in flat triier/torv you lose in accuracy. Take for instance the 

 Bo- iv ii 'i rn :; :- rifle, which led in tho Forest and Stream 

 ies , ; test m&ny oersons thought that if this gun 



b'^ =1 i;e i::;t i^jsi, and consequently many gun 



coi. M , : ,1 L : i i : ior - :c1l a gun using the same cartridge. 

 Amoiig I iiern war. i.]-;e -Massachtipclts Arms Co., of Chieopee Falls. 

 Now, this company makes a spec inlty of manufacturing line sport- 

 ing rifles, and as she oalla increased, in order to please theii' cus- 

 tomers tney made a sex of tools foi' ciiambering their guns for this 

 cartridge, and sold quite a nurnher of t iiese tifles. The result was 

 that in a fe-.v weeks complaints began to come in tliat those .32-10- 

 135 guns would not shoot. Their only reply was that they knew 

 that before 1 iicy made them, litit liad only made them to order to 

 please custoincrs. They also claimed to such com olainant that 

 they could furnisii hii-ii a .oi-cal. that would slioot. Now they use 

 to niaka a gun a'lnot y5gr3. powder and I'Sgrs. of lead; and you 

 ■would be saryised to know how many of these guns are now in 

 the hands of I he acst marksme<i of the day shooting 200, 400 and 

 600yds. Mam- are the tniicw lliat I hr.vc s-ecn th« workman who 

 tests their guns r.ut shot a ! :', :- i- ia-; mi g at 200yds., 



using iioth p:;tch8d and Tl: ■ ■ _ - barrel, and 



shooting >o evenly that no 'iMi j . - . -i -. the better 



target. The majority of all y,a,ijie ':-h>-j( i-i :r. ;, _ :Ji ;i ■'-,-.■[<:. 



Now, if ?.ir. Wilcox will t-urn to the latest taraJ' , _i ' "l-iythc 

 Winc.hestcr.\rnt:3Company, he will lindonpa;-,: .'. .1 1 :orics 



of several of their jpsw mod.:-l suns, name'y. - -i'0-4O5, 



.45-70-530, .•lo-yo-aOO. in the ..i;5.70-nC0 the proportion of powder is 

 about 1 to V, in th» .40-R'J-3.:0 arout 1 to 3, in tiie .45-90-300 about 1 to 

 3, and the .iS-TO-iO", 1 to C. The trajectories are for SOOyds. from 10 

 to ivarly IHin., showing that tiie propoi'tion of powder from pro- 

 portion 1 to'/ -, I too jna'.i'cs adifiorenccin the trajectory of only Sin. 

 Hot so vv:-y wondes-i ul. Now turn to page 34 in the same cata- 

 logue and -ill i id. fi irible of the pcnotratlon of those different 

 guns. I'l : r i tes 11 boards and the .45-70-500 pene- 



tratesl'^ , ^iii sm y-.n^e that in huntingif the bullet 



fromti-i a nee ro hit a limb bef I re it reached the 



game it .v'OuiU bt dijlictlod from its course a,s much as one from the 

 ,40-82-260 gunV Then in s-ti-.king the game do vott think the high 

 speed bullet will do an much crughing Bci-'ice as the heavy one? If 



you -wished to break a bar of pig iron would you use a light sledge 

 or a heavy one? Which -will drive a nail the quickest and easiest, 

 a light hammer or a heavj' one? 



Now about breechloaders. One of the greatest faults -with them 

 is that tJiey are not properly chambered and the cartiddges do not 

 fit. I have lately had a little experience in chambering a gun for 

 a .50-70-405 cartridge. 1 chambered it so that a sample cartridge 

 would fit nicely; but upon the arrival of several boxes I could 

 not find another cartridge that -svould go in nearer than M of an 

 inch, and some of these varied so much that while one would fit 

 tight another one would shake. Some of the shells varied 1-10 of 

 an inch in length. Do you -wonder tho soldiers complain that the 

 Springfield ilfle won't shoot? The ammunition should be perfect. 



It is generally acknowledged among riflemen that trajectory is 

 only obtained at the expense of accuriicy. ^Vhen a breechloading 

 rifle will shoot fifty consecutive shots inside a 4in. ring at200yds. it 

 is good enough for me. This the Maynard rifle will do and has 

 done and can do again. I have one of these guns and know just 

 what it will do, and my gun is no exception; their guns will :j31 

 shoot as good as mine or better. Suppose, as Mr. Wilcox says, f 

 should want to stroll out for squirrels or rabbits. I simply t£*k6 

 off my large barrel and put ia its place a .;K-cal., and the change 

 does not occupy more than one minute. Then x am completely 

 rigged. Tho cost of ammunition is but 25 cents per 100 shots. 

 Then, again, if I want practice for a coming match I put on the 

 .22 barrel and shoot 100ft. at reduced targets; then when the day 

 for the match comes all I have to do is to change the barrels and I 

 am ready. You see, I get the same sights and the same trigger 

 prll with the small barrel as with the large one, and use the sauie 

 stock. Now, this practice is nearly as good as longer-range shoot- 

 ing and costs— nothing. The barrel I use for hunting is a .10-70-270. 

 I have in reality three guns, .22, .32 and .40-cal. barrels. These I 

 take in a case w-ith one stock on many pleasure and bnsinesa trips, 

 as they all can be packed in a small case and do not attract atten- 

 tion. Then, when camping, the .'22 is just tho thing to shoot about 

 the camp, as it makes no noise. I have used this at 20i;iyds. range 

 with good success, but find it shoots best at lOOyds. 



I have no "axe to grind" in -vwiting this, and am in no way con- 

 nected Avith the Massachusetts Arms Company or the sale of their 

 arms; bat I am tnterested in the facts of the case, and if can learn 

 more I should like to do so. 



Will some one tell us do different guns using the same cartridge 

 kick differently? MAYNARD. 



CiixcoPEU, Mass. 



Editor Forest rnui Stream: 



In your v aluable paper of the 25th inst., I find a request from 

 Mr. Romer that 1 answer two questions. 1st, VsTiy the muzzleload- 

 ing rifies used in the Fobjest and Stream trajectory tests were 

 not hunting rifles. Ans.— By the manner of loading. 2d, To 

 make good my claim that the difference in the heights of bullets on 

 the screen at lOOvds. on a range of 200yds. shows the accuracy of 

 the rifle. Ans.— 1 have talked with some of the target shooters 

 here using heavy rifles fitted tip with "ohe muzzle parapliornalia 

 for fine work, and they say, "Give me a gim that will hold the 

 elevation as closely as I can hob! the windage, is all I ask." If 

 Mr. Komer \vauts more proof, I am instructed to invite him here 

 to take part in the next match of tlie N, Y. P. and O. Shooting 

 Club, and they will try to demonstrate tlie f;a l on a, liOOyds. range. 



My further statements in regard to the Forks c axd Stream 

 trajectory trials, 1 belie-.-e, v\ erc based entirely on the report of 

 same contained in FoiiEST and Stream at the time, audi accepted 

 tho report then, and do now, without a question. 



\\Tiar little rifle shooting 1 do is dmie oft-hand. I am using a 

 Stevens (instead of a Mayard) rifle .32-40, 34in. barrel, O^lbs., -with 

 whicli I have recently made the best shooting I have ever done 

 with any rifle, and yet I am not happy. R. H. Burns. 



Jamestown, N. Y., Nov. 28. 



"That reminds me." 

 196. 



THE liero's name, for purposes 6f this sketch, was Hop- 

 jjer, and as a successful huiitel- 1 have never seen his 

 equal. The intuitive knowledge, buoyant enthusiasm, 

 untiring muscle, keen eye and cool nerve that mark the 

 thorough sportsman were his in a remarkable degree. 

 Wlten hunters of common stripe searched day after day 

 for deer in vaia, he knew just tlie happy nook on the 

 mountain side where a buck was sure to be lying in bliss- 

 ful seclusion, and w^ould bring him to camp with almost 

 miraculotis certainty. Deeply versed in all the witcliing 

 lore of woodcraft, he wovdd follow the trail of a wounded 

 deer with a skill and accuracy that called forth the admir- 

 ation even of the Indians. He had his foiljles and weak- 

 nesses, however, or he must liave been more tlian lutraan. 

 Next to his passionate love for all kinds of sport was a 

 jealous devotion to a noble jet black beard that formed 

 his most notable featm-e. This darling of his heart kept 

 him tolerably well engaged in his leisure moments, and 

 detractoi-s were not wanting Avho insinuated that a pocket 

 comb and glass were as essential items of Hopper's equip- 

 ments for a morning hunt as were rifle and ammunition. 



Almost on a par with his fondness for the outvs- ard and 

 visible sign of manhood was his love for practical joking. 

 Any sort of larking or horse play that might be i^roposed 

 always met -with his warm approval and support; and he 

 prided himself — with good reason, too— on being just a 

 trifle more wide awake than the balance of the boys, and 

 on always having the laugh on the right side. As he said 

 himself "Bet yoiu- life, boys, you don't catch me: I guess 

 I know the difference 'tween a fir knot and a blue grouse." 

 To any one who has devoted half an hour or so to a vain 

 searcli in the branches of a big fir for a cock blue grouse 

 only to end his quest by a shot at an inviting gnarl on a 

 Iknb, the force of the expression will be apparent. 



One beautiful winter morning, so many years ago that 

 one almost hates to coiTiit tliem, tlie writer and a friend 

 left home together for a clay's deer hunting on one of the 

 most lovely of Vancouver Island's many lovely motm- 

 tains. Before commencing the ascent and just as we 

 were about to sepai-ate, Franli and I arranged to meet at 

 a crescent-sliaped wall of rock that stood about half way 

 up the mountain and immediately below what was gen- 

 erally considered tlie best hunting ground in the vicinity. 

 I had reached the western point of the crescent and was 

 sitting on a big stone waiting for Frank and carefully 

 scanning the ferny hollow below, when happening to 

 look up, I saw Hopper standing midway between the 

 horns of the arc, and Ulve myself, inspecting the sheltered 

 basin at the foot of the cliff. Apparently satisfied that 

 no game was in sight he came over towai'd me, and long 

 before we met, he began asking about Frank and the 

 course we intended taking. While we were chatting 

 away, a fine buck, that had been lying close under the 

 bluff, jumped out and made tracks for the front. 



Hopper Inu-riedly told me to pass quickly along to the 

 other end of the rocks while he scrambled down the least 

 steen part of them and went off after the deer. Having 

 traveled along till I was clear of the liluff and in fairly 

 open ground, I sat do-wn and waited, the sun shining 

 dazzlingly in my eyes. Presently I saw, as I thought, 

 friend Hopper climbing slowly up througli the brush 

 toward me. I could catch a giimpse of Mm every now 

 1 and then through the timber as he headed straight for 

 ; me, but what was my surprise when, just as I was on the 

 I point of apeaiiing, I saw that what I had taken foi Hopper 

 was rcaUy the btick, which he had cleverly driven toward 

 I me. The recognition was mutual, find before I had a 



chance to shoot he was clattering along the hiU back to 

 his old lair. I ran as fast as I coiild to the nearest point 

 whence I could see into the hollow and inanaged to get a 

 shot at him as he was trotting through the fern. I was 

 blown by the run, however, and missed him. 



The deef steered for the other end of the semicircle, and 

 just as he had reached it and was climbing up a steep 

 path to the simnnit, I saw Hopper on the flat beneath, 

 raising his rifle to shoot. I watched the buck, wliich had 

 stopped for a moment, and just then the rifle cracked and 

 down toppled his majesty, rolling over and over to the 

 bottom. Then Hopper called out, "Didn't want to spoil 

 the meat. Nipped him in the neck. Sweet, pretty shot, 

 wasn't it?" It certainly was, for, sure enough, the' bullet 

 was just below the head, and a long shot at that. We 

 dragged the deer to a convenient spot, gutted him, and 

 prepared him for packing, aU the while admiring his 

 size, the beauty of his horns, and so on. All at once a 

 brilliant thought struck Hopper. "Say, let's put liim by 

 that log and prop up his head, so that when Frank comes 

 along he'll flunk the blessed thing's alive and shoot at it." 

 No sooner said than done; the buck was artistically and 

 securely posed, and off we went above the rocks to tiy and 

 get some more shooting. 



Hopper took one side of a tiny stream that rippled 

 through the woods and I the other. In less than five 

 minutes I heard him shoot, and soon a couple of yearhngs, 

 buck and doe, came running over to my side of the creek. 

 I blazed away at the leader and dropped him in his tracks, 

 and then cracked away at the second with the other 

 barrel. It ran fifty or sixty yards and then dropped. 

 Satisfied with my luck I got the pair ready, shouldered 

 them both, and started back for tho rocks, thinking 

 Frank might have come by tliat time. There was no 

 sign of him, however, so I sat do\vn for a rest and a com- 

 fortable smoke. In a few minutes down came Hopper 

 with a deer on his back. As he reached the edge of the 

 bluff I saw him suddenly start back, drop the deer hm-- 

 riedly from his back, and crawl stealthily to the front 

 again. Pausmg cautiously over the bank he took a long 

 deliberate aim and fu-ed. After a moment's pause for in- 

 spection he drew back a little and began to reload. The 

 only object I cotdd see to shoot at was a big eagle on a 

 ti-ee in the hollow beneath, but it seemed quife out of the 

 range of Hopper's fire. Powder, ball, patch and cap 

 being handy it took but a short time to reload. He care- 

 f uUj^ drew himself to the front again, took another steady 

 aim and cracked away -with the same result. 



By this time I had begun to smell a tolerably big rat, 

 but I gave no sign or my proximity, determined that the 

 flash of conviction should come to him without any in- 

 side aid. It need only be said that four shots in all were 

 fired before the rmpalatable ti-uth got firm hold of him 

 that he had fallen into his own trap. When he fully 

 comprehended the sell his active and eloquent gestures 

 indicated that he was reheving his overcharged feelings 

 by a little tall talk. Then he looked keenly all around 

 three or four times till the grateful belief filled his soxil 

 •with consolation that, if he had ouf-witted Irimself, at 

 least no one, save himself was any the wiser. Alas, for 

 the fi.eeting nature of earthly satisfaction! He had hardly- 

 stooped to pick up his burtfen when a voice brought him 

 all standing as it yelled, "Didn't want to spoil the meat, 

 eh? Nipped him" in the neck, eh? Sweet, pretty shots, 

 weren't they?'' 



Eeaders of Forest and Stream, you should have seen 

 the inexpressible woe-begone look that came over the 

 countenance of the practical joker. With accents that 

 would have melted a sterner heart than jnine, he appeal- 

 ingly exclaimed, "Oh, for Heaven's eake, don't ten the 

 boys!" And I never have told the boys till now. 



II. M. C. 



Cache Creek, British Columbia. 



§ed mid §iver Risking. 



Address all cnmrmmiccibiffns to (lie Forcd and Stream Ptib. Co. 



ALASKAN TROUT AND THE FLY. 



Editor Forest and Sti-eam: 



Being something of an Alaskan as well as a fly-fisher, 

 myself, I was much mterested in Dr. T. H. Streets's 

 "Defense of Alaskan Trottt," published in yom- issue of 

 Nov. 18. He has certainly cleared up, once and for all, 

 the old superstition that Alaskan trout would not rise to 

 the flv. Nevertheless, I am afraid that I must contest 

 his claim to the position of "the pioneer fisherman with 

 the fly ui Alaska." If I am not very much mistaken my 

 former mess-mate, Dr. George F. Wilson, U. S. Army, 

 at that time sin-geon of Lieut. Schwatka's exploring party, 

 and myself, cau.ght a good sti-ing of trout in tJnalaska 

 with the artificial fly, at least a year before the Patter- 

 son, -with Dr. Streets on board, came through the Straits 

 of Magellan. And even we. I am afraid, ctm not bo 

 called "pioneers," as I have heard that some of the custom 

 house officials stationed at Unalaska had had some suc- 

 cessful fly-fishing years before we came there. Still, 

 Unalaska*^is so far off that it is no wonder that it takes a 

 long -while for the intelligence about such matters to 

 reach civilization, and the remark of the writer that these 

 Unalaska trout "took small dark flies greedily" might 

 easily escape general notice, occurring, as it does, in a 

 Government report (Lieut. Ray's "Report of the Expedition 

 to Point Barrow," p. 132) among the scientific notes on the 

 fishes collected by the expedition. Some details of our 

 fisl-ung may be of interest to your readers. 



We were on om- way back to civilization after our two 

 years' sohtude in the Arctic regions, when wo picked up 

 at St. Michael's Lieut. Schwat"ka and his party, who had 

 just com])leted their adven-fcrn-ous trip down the Yukon, 

 the story of which is well known to all readers of Forest 

 AND Stream. This was in September, 1S83. As the last 

 vessel for the year had aheady sailed before Schwatka's 

 partj' reached St. Michael's, they were very glad to put 

 up with the crowded accommodations of our little 

 schooner. I foimd Dr. Wilson an ardent fly-fisher, and 

 we soon agreed that when we reached Unalaska we would 

 see what a fly would do in the Uttle brook behind the 

 village, where our "interpreter" used to catch so many, 

 he said, with the bait. Sept. 19, having completed the 

 observations we had to make, and having no more duties 

 to attend to on board, the Doctor and I started out in 

 spite of the fact that a fine drizzhdg rain was f aUing and 

 a fresh breeze blo-wing straight down the valley of tJia 



