Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899), Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909, Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942, Washington Academy of Sciences (Washington, D.C.) · New York, Doubleday, Page & Company · leaf 308
by the canopy of fog resting upon it. In his walk one of our doctors saw the backs of two large white objects, showing above a little swell in the land inside an inlet. Here evidently were the polar bears they were in quest of. The Doctor began to stalk them, replacing the shells in his gun with… … YOUNG SWANS CAUGHT ON ST. LAWRENCE were about the same as ae those we had already seen. Not many years ago there were on St. Lawrence Island many encampments of Eskimo embracing several hun- dred people. Late one autumn some whalers turned up there with the worst kind of whiskey, with which they…
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