THE RESCUE FROM WRANGELL ISLAND 329 
At Unalaska I met Captain Miller, of the Pat¬ 
terson, the Coast and Geodetic Survey boat, which 
had been doing a great deal of work that season off 
the south entrance of the Unimak Pass. He was 
a very clever man and as I was much interested in 
his work, we spent a good many hours together; 
not so very many months later he was to be 
drowned on the Lusitania, in the course of the war 
whose first unbelievable rumblings we still scarcely 
heard. 
On the afternoon of October 14, with the long 
homeward pennant flying, we cast off from the pier 
at Unalaska and steamed south on the last leg of 
the long journey we had travelled since the June 
day the year before when we had first left for the 
north. The voyage south was uneventful and on 
October 24, 1914, the Bear landed us once more at 
the navy yard at Esquimault. 
The next day, under the instructions of the 
Canadian Government, I paid off the men; soon 
they had started for their homes, while I left for 
Ottawa to make my final report of the last voyage 
of the Karluk. 
THE END 
