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W Inlet we passed several fox islands. These 
islands have been leased from the Goy- 
ernment by companies and individuals and stocked 
with An hat 
miles from other land to prevent the 
foxes. island is chosen is several 
foxes from 
distances, but 
escaping. They readily swim short 
will not attempt one of several miles. After an 
island is leased, all that is necessary is to pro- 
cure aS many pairs as one usually about 
fifty pairs for an island of fifty thousand 
turn them loose and await their 
are fed but little, as 
streams up which salmon run, and 
needs, 
acres, 

icrease. They 
the islands contain many 
the foxes help 
themselves. 

If an island is near a cannery, how- 
ittle 
about once a week with a load of fish heads and 
ever, the proprietor takes his sloop over 
parts not used in canning. In winter, when the 
snow is heavy, they are fed shorts, meal or a 
cheap grade of rice mixed with water and some- 
times 
if healthy 
cooked. They generally increase rapidly 
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and with plenty of ground to roam 
some pairs raising two litters of from four 
to six puppies each year. 
Over, 
The kind that has proved most profitable is the 
blue 
first 
fox, which is a native of Siberia, and was 
imported from there about ten years 
ago 
for experimental purposes. Since the experiment 
, the 
their 
has proved a success and a growing industry 
parties who now procure 
breeding foxes from some other island. at 
fifty to 
stock an island 
from 
Wen the 
which produces the best market- 
able fur, they are tolled in 
seventy-five dollars a pair. 
season arrives 
o a pen, the best coated 
ones are picked out and ki 
their 
led so as not to damage 
turned loose to raise 
another supply of pelts. The blue 
from thirty to seventy do 
fur and the others 
ox skins bring 
F 
lars, and the black fox 
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pelts often sell for four hundred dclars exch, 
but their raising has been given up, as ¢hey in- 
crease slowly or not at all, the male fox generally 
devouring the young ones soon aftcr they are 
born. It is necessary that some one should live 
on each island to prevent poaching and to kill the 
eagles, which often carry off the young, and no 
occupation could fit the squaw-man bezter. He 
is usually an outlaw from the States or a shift- 
less white man who is tired of civilization and 
who goes up there, marries a squaw, settles down 
and raises a large family of half-breeds, doing 
nothing but occasionally killing a bear or deer. 
Like the natives, they live mostly on fish. Most 
of the islands would produce a bountiful supply 

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A Prospecting, Shooting and Fishing Journey to Alaska—Il. 
By S. H. CARTER 
of vegetables if properly taken care of, but a 
garden patch is seldom seen, as the men are too 
lazy to use a spade. 
We reached the town and the company’s sta- 
tion on Kadiak Island, on a bright Sunday after- 
noon. Kadiak is undoubtedly the prettiest and 
kind in Alaska. Three- 
fourths of its inhabitants of several hundred are 
a mixture of Russian and Indian blood, the bal- 
ance squaw-men, fishermen, and a few old Rus- 
sian settlers. 
neatest place of that 
We enjoyed looking over the town 
and seeing the small herds of cows grazing on 
the hills, where a rich growth of grass was knee 
deep. I was told the winters were very mild, 
little snow falls and the cattle run out the whole 
year. 
The captain was in no hurry and remained that 
night to give the passengers and crew a chance 
to attend a dance given in honor of the boat’s 
arrival. I attended and was greatly surprised to 
find that the Russian and Indian women, who 
had never left the place, could dance remarkably 
well, and enjoyed two long waltzes with two 
squatty damsels of a chocolate color, who were 
dressed in stunning bright calico costumes and 
wor 

e brass earrings at least two inches in diam- 
eter. 
The next morning 
Island 
tons of salmon, 
Michaels Yukon 
for winter dog food. 
we 
took 
which 
Wood 
hundred 
£0) St 
used 
went over to 
there and 
dried 
near on several 
was to go 
and River be 
Island we 
Island, 
Karluk, 
and has six 
points to 
Wood 
coast of 
Uyak Bay and 
salmon waters 
can there, and 
told he had 
salmon caught at a single haul. 
On Kadiak Island 
From 
the northern Kadiak 
stopping at Afoganak, 
which is in 
skirted 
famous 
canneries. Seines be used 
of the 
one 
Managers me seen I00,000 
we saw our last timber. 
The eastern part is well timbered, but the west- 
ern part is composed of barren hills which grow 
only moss and short grass. Our boat then turned 
north and crossed to the mainland to land two 
passengers in Cold Bay, where they were going 
to prospect for oil. When we entered the bay, 
although a brisk wind was blowing and the white- 
caps foaming, three each paddled by 
two Indians, came out to meet us and escort us 
in. The badaka is made with a strong but light 
badakas, 
framework of wood securely lashed together with 
rawhide and all dried sea 
lion skins with the hair removed, leaving only 
one, two or three holes, depending on the size 
covered over with 
they are building, about eighteen inches in diam- 
eter on top. 
the bottom with their legs straight out in front 
of them and only their body, from waist up, 
showing. Around their bodies they wear an 
of seal bladder, which is as thin as parch- 
but strong and perfectly waterproof, 
are fastened securely around the hole 
they sit in and drawn tightly around their necks, 
and with sleeves fitting tight at the wrists. Thus 
man and boat perfectly waterproof, they did not 
mind the waves washing over them, often hiding 
them completely from sight, and although we 
were running at fair speed, they easily kept up 
with us, smiling and grinning, but always pad- 
dling with their light double bisded paddles with 
the greatest ease and skill. They frequently go 
out of sight of land in their badakas and are 
often caught in heavy gales, good storm prephets 
though they are, but the badaka paddled by those 
fearless and skillful hands is seldom lost and 
can stand storms that would make some steamers 
and schooners harbor. 
Leaving Cold Bay, we proceeded down the 
Aleutian Peninsula to Chignic Bay, which is 
about two hundred and fifty miles from Kadiak 
Island, and steamed about twenty miles up the 
bay to the company’s cannery. 
apron 
ment, 
These 
seek a 
There are two 
other canneries further up the bay belonging to 
different companies, but our boat did not call 
there. We found the cannery at Chignic idle, as 
few fish running and 
looking very blue. 
were the manager was 
Coming out of the bay, we 
ran close to Castle Rock, which is on the ex- 
treme top of a high cliff rising perpendicular 
from the and with its surrounding towers 
and walls seems an exact reproduction of an old 
feudal castle in Great Britain. 
Our next stop was at Unga on Unga Island, 
where a large quartz mine is in operation, em- 
ploying a great many Russians and Indians of 
mixed blood. The Government has a public 
school there and it is well attended by Indian 
and halfbreed children. We stopped next at 
Sand Point, near Unga Island, which has a post- 
office and company store, the only buildings there 
except a fine three-story house with 
and bay windows. It was 
built a few years ago by a rich man who saw a 
great future in the fur, fishery and mining in- 
dustries around the islands, and intended to live 
there with his family, but as soon as the house 
was finished his visions faded and he has never 
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