Identifier: biggameshootingi00radcrich (find matches)
Title: Big game shooting in Alaska
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Radclyffe, C. R. E. (Charles Robert Eustace)
Subjects: Hunting -- Alaska Game and game-birds -- Alaska
Publisher: London : R. Ward
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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the soundones managed to make things fairly lively in the saloonthroughout the night, and as my cabin opened into thesaloon, I spent a second night without getting much sleep,owing to the noise they made. This boat, the Clallam, hassince been lost, as she sank on January 9, 1904, with all onboard, making a total loss of sixty lives. I spent the next day at Seattle, and that eveningHanbury gave a big dinner at the Washington, a fine newhotel. The English sportsmen again rolled up in force, andafterwards we adjourned to witness a performance ofFlorodora at the theatre, which was given by those of thetheatrical company who escaped injury in the railwayaccident. On the following morning I bade adieu to Seattle. Mr.Sam Hill, who was travelling accompanied by his championwrestlers to St. Paul, kindly offered Elphinstone, Vander Byl,and myself seats in his private car to St. Paul, an offer which,needless to say, we all three accepted. Travelling via St. Paul and Chicago, I reached Washington
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THE AUTHOR AND MR. R. F. GLYN. 284 BIG GAME SHOOTING IN ALASKA chap. on November 13. Here I remained three days, most ofwhich I spent in the company of the officials at the head-quarters of the Biological Survey Office, who displayed greatinterest in the results of our trip, and in the treatment wehad received at the hands of the custodians of the law inAlaska. Accompanied by Mr, Osgood and Dr. T. S.Palmer, I again paid visits to the Smithsonian Institute andthe National Zoological Park, at the latter of which we weretaken in charge by one of the officials, who was exceedinglykind in showing us all over the fine Zoo, and even stirringup with a long pole all the various bears so as to paradethem outside their dens for my edification. I was muchimpressed with the magnificent accommodation and amplespace provided for the various animals and birds in thepark, which far excels anything in our own Zoo, wherethe space is somewhat limited. The monkey house was amarvel of cleanliness, and its

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