American big game in its haunts; the book of the Boone and Crockett club . yager, who hoped that itwould furnish a water passage for him to Hud-sons Bay. The trees stop at Cook Inlet, there being onlya few on the western shore. To the south thewooded line intersects the Kadiak group of islands,and we find the northeastern part of Kadiak, aswell as the whole of Wood and Afognak, exceptthe central portion of the last, well covered withspruce. The absence of forests makes it often possibleto see for miles over the country, and explains whythe Barren Grounds of Alaska offer such won-derful opportu
American big game in its haunts; the book of the Boone and Crockett club . yager, who hoped that itwould furnish a water passage for him to Hud-sons Bay. The trees stop at Cook Inlet, there being onlya few on the western shore. To the south thewooded line intersects the Kadiak group of islands,and we find the northeastern part of Kadiak, aswell as the whole of Wood and Afognak, exceptthe central portion of the last, well covered withspruce. The absence of forests makes it often possibleto see for miles over the country, and explains whythe Barren Grounds of Alaska offer such won-derful opportunities for bear hunting. There arebears all along the southern coast of the peninsula,but in the timber there, as elsewhere, the bearshave all the best of it. On leaving Cook Inlet, we kept a southerlycourse through the gloomy Barren Islands whichmark the eastern boundary of the much-dreadedShelikoff Straits, and early one morning passedAfognak, and made Wood Island landing, wherewe were most hospitably received by the NorthAmerican Fur Companys people. Wood Island^ 230. The Kadiak Bear and his Home about 1^/2 miles from Kadiak, is small and wellcovered with spruce. It has some two hundredpeople, for the most part natives, and under Rus-sian rule was used for a huge ice-storing Island, lOO miles by 30, is thickly studdedwith mountains, and extremely picturesque, withthe white covering of early spring, as we found it,or when green with heavy grass dotted with wildflowers in July. The Kadiak group looks as if it might havefallen out of Cook Inlet, and one of the nativelegends tells us that once the Kadiak Islands wereso near the Alaskan shore that a mammoth seaotter, while trying to swim through the narrowstraits, got wedged between the rocks, and his tre-mendous struggles to free himself pushed theislands out into their present position. The sea otterand bear have always been most intimately con-nected with the lives of the Kadiakers, and haveexercised a more import
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