Identifier: sealsalmonfisher03jord (find matches)
Title: Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Jordon, David Starr, 1851-1931 Elliott, Henry Wood, 1846-1930 Maynard, Washburn, 1844- Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909 Morris, William Gouverneur, d. 1884 Petroff, Ivan, b. 1842 Townsend, Charles Haskins, 1859-1944 True, Frederick William, 1858-1914 Brice, John J Stejneger, Leonhard, 1851-1943 United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Special Agents Division
Subjects: Bering Sea controversy Sealing Fisheries
Publisher: Washington : Govt. Printing Office
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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open so quickly by one of the Aleuts, who kickedthe contents out, that I hardly knew what had been done ere the strong-smellingsubject was directly under my nose. The natives then were anxious that I shouldhurry through v>^ith my sketches, measurements, etc., so that they might thesooner push off their egg-laden bidarrah and cross back to the main island beforethe fogs would settle over our homeward track, or the rapidly rising wind shift tothe northward and imperil our passage. Weighty reasons, t\ ese, which so fullyimpressed me that this unique stomach of a carnivora was overlooked and leftbehind; hence, v>^ith the exception of curiously turning over the clams (especiallythose iTUcrushed specimens), which formed the great bulk of its contents, I haveno memoranda or even distinct recollection of the other materi s that were incor-por;vted. The olivaceous green color of its soft, pasty excremc ; must be derivedfrom eating cJUorosjjerriioe and, divers branches of algoid growtii.
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in a^ Sh (Sj ^ ^ (D CO 2 CO^^ CO +j> CO•^ <S) 0 ^ 0) en X 0 CO ro ALASKA INDUSTRIES. 161 brutes, as were those spread before me on Walrus Islet, with any ofthe strange chapters written as to the ferocity and devilish courageof the Greenland morse. These animals were exceeding cowardlj^;abjectly so. It is with the greatest difficulty that the natives, when aherd of walruses are surprised, can get a second shot at them; so farfrom clustering attacks around their boats, it is the verj^ reverse; andthe hunters only solicitude is Avhich way to travel in order that hemay come up with the fleeing animals as they rise to breathe. Again,I visited Walrus Islet in 1874, accompanied by Lieutenant Maynard,United States Navy, and the captain of the revenue cutter Reliance.We rowed from the ship directly toward the islet, to a point where wesaw the accustomed and expected sight of walrus lying thereon. Thewind was fair for us and we came up almost to within a boats oardistance of th

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