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able in our quarters, with plenty to eat and no lack 
of fuel. There was work to be done and all hands 
kept busily at it, with no time to mope or indulge 
in vain regrets; sleep came easily at the end of the 
day’s occupations and though we did not have each 
man his private room and bath we had more sooth¬ 
ing beds than I have slept on in some hotels. 
Every day we progressed in our preparations to 
make the landward journey. On the twenty- 
sixth, for instance, in addition to the constant round 
of packing and repacking, weighing this and meas¬ 
uring that, we tested a couple of bell tents, which 
had been made on shipboard, to see if they were all 
right for use later on. Each had a pole going up 
through the middle; we found they were quite 
satisfactory and the men used theuuafterwards to 
live in on Wrangell Island. 
On the twenty-seventh we got a view of the 
whole sun above the horizon and a good look at the 
land. In the half light of the previous days it had 
varied in size from time to time like a mirage and 
we could not tell whether it was Wrangell Island 
or not; now it seemed certain that it was not Wran¬ 
gell so it must be Herald, according to the chart, 
a surmise which turned out to be correct, 
“Herald Island,”—quoting again from the 
“Coast Pilot,’’“—“its highest point about 38 miles 
E. N. E. from Wrangell Island, was discovered 
