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INTRODUCTION 
Royal Island and at Lowe Inlet, British Columbia (June 
3), and at Farragut Bay, Alaska (June 5). From Skag- 
way we made an excursion by rail to White Pass (June 
7), and then steamed to Glacier Bay (June 8) by way of 
Juneau. Palache remained at Juneau and Douglas from 
June 6 to June 8, examining the Alaska-Treadwell mine 
and visiting the canyon back of Juneau. We remained in 
Glacier Bay five days, with headquarters near Muir Gla¬ 
cier. Muir, Palache, and Gilbert spent three days (June 
10-13), with boat and camping outfit, in Hugh Miller, 
Reid, and Geikie inlets. Sitka was reached June 14, by 
way of Peril Strait, and was our headquarters for four 
days. Emerson and Gilbert accompanied an excursion 
down the coast to Hot Springs; Gilbert ascended Ver- 
stovia, a small mountain back of the town ; and Palache 
visited Silver Bay. 
From Sitka we followed the coast westward, touching 
at La Perouse Glacier (June 18), and giving several days 
each to Yakutat Bay (June 18-23) and Prince William 
Sound (June 24-29). Within Yakutat Bay we landed at 
the winter and summer villages of the Indians, and steamed 
to the head of Russell Fiord. Muir and Gilbert followed 
Nunatak Fiord to Nunatak Glacier, and afterward visited 
Hubbard Glacier, Osier Island and the adjacent mainland, 
where a camp was made, and Haenke Island. Gilbert 
visited Hidden Glacier, and Emerson a neighboring point 
of land. Palache spent several days with a shore party 
on the west coast of the bay, making an excursion to the 
mountains at the north. 
The first landing in Prince William Sound was at Orca. 
Afterward the ship entered Columbia Bay and left a camp¬ 
ing party, including Gilbert and Palache. Then it visited 
College Fiord, where a landing was made at Bryn Mawr 
Glacier, and Harriman Fiord, where a second camping 
party, including Muir, was left. Orca was again visited, 
