. Big game shooting in Alaska . l; and as she is by far the mostcomfortable boat on that route, and her officers from thecaptain downwards are exceedingly kind and courteous,her list of passengers in the spring and fall of the year isalways a large one. She is by no means remarkable for herpace, although, as Colonel Cane facetiously remarks in hisbook, under exceptionally favourable circumstances, shehas been known to have attained the terrific speed of eightknots an hour. Personally I have seen her doing better pace than this,according to the log, but I have also seen the time when she XIII O
. Big game shooting in Alaska . l; and as she is by far the mostcomfortable boat on that route, and her officers from thecaptain downwards are exceedingly kind and courteous,her list of passengers in the spring and fall of the year isalways a large one. She is by no means remarkable for herpace, although, as Colonel Cane facetiously remarks in hisbook, under exceptionally favourable circumstances, shehas been known to have attained the terrific speed of eightknots an hour. Personally I have seen her doing better pace than this,according to the log, but I have also seen the time when she XIII ON THE HOMEWARD TRAIL 265 has lost considerable ground, after battling against a headwind such as blows in a way peculiar to Alaska, and theskipper has had reluctantly to give it up, and run under thefriendly shelter of some island or point on the has at least the qualification of being a really goodsea-boat, and the strength of her timbers is she was, I believe, built for a whaler, but has since. Castle Cape Rocks, near Chignik, Alaska Peninsula. been cut in half and an additional 40 feet added to herlength. Speaking of the stoutness of the old ship, duringthe voyage down to Seattle, an American who had mademany trips on board her said to me, Yes, sir, I guess thisold craft is a tough one ; she is the only boat on this coastthat can do what she has done without going to the has run slap into a rock, going at full speed, and didntgive a d—n for that rock, and you bet I should not be scared 266 BIG GAME SHOOTING IX ALASKA chap. if she just did it now with all her sails set and steam ever there was a coast to tempt the skippers on to rocks,the western coast of Alaska is the place best suited for the most recent charts, as supplied to me by theWashington Geographical Survey Department, are hope-lessly inaccurate as regards many of the bays along the waters abound with swarms of dangerous rocks, sharppointed and j
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