Outing . sixtymiles, and its greatest breadth is is shaped like a wasp, the waist being atInanudak, which extends to within twomiles of the Pacific. Since the Russianbuccaneers, few white-mens feet havetrodden Umnak; none, indeed, except thefactor of the A. C. Co., before its post at thevillage of Nikolski on the south end ofthe island, (called Umnak Village by squaw-men), and the sole present settlement, wasdeserted in the early nineties; except SamApplegate, the last pelagic sea-otter hunterin the archipelago, who draws his crewfrom Nikolski, and the Russian father onhis yearly vi
Outing . sixtymiles, and its greatest breadth is is shaped like a wasp, the waist being atInanudak, which extends to within twomiles of the Pacific. Since the Russianbuccaneers, few white-mens feet havetrodden Umnak; none, indeed, except thefactor of the A. C. Co., before its post at thevillage of Nikolski on the south end ofthe island, (called Umnak Village by squaw-men), and the sole present settlement, wasdeserted in the early nineties; except SamApplegate, the last pelagic sea-otter hunterin the archipelago, who draws his crewfrom Nikolski, and the Russian father onhis yearly visit in a bidarki from Unalaska—or possibly a squawman trading or land-ing fox hunters, or the crew of a poachingsealer from Victoria. The islands volcanic history was vagueand contradictory. But one thing wascertain. It had two centers of activity:one in its northern, which alone concernedme now. one in its southern half, thelast dominated by Mt. Vsevidov, 7,236 the north, the Coast Survey chart. Murres nesting on Bogoslov Island. 546 The Outing Magazine showed a jumble of the chestnut-burthings used to mark mountains, thenorthernmost simply marked, Vol. Theonly other in print, and of the Bering Seaside alone, was made in 1894 by the U. Concord, and seemed to be a work ofsome imagination. Applegate gave me asketch map of the island, also with randomchestnut-burs on its north half, but havingthe most southern, instead of northernone, marked Okmok Vol? And while theGeological Surveys list of Alaskan volca-noes made from that of Grewingk, the Ger-man geographer, in 1895, cited no volcanoat all north of Inanudak Bay, Ivan Petroff,who wrote a report on Alaska for the WarDepartment, in 1885, quoted mention bythe old missionary Veniaminov of a TulikVolcano in that quarter. Undoubtedly a great eruption in 1817wracked the island. Dall,* followingGrewingk, apparently credits it to thenorth half of the wasp; the Survey to anorth peak of Mt. Vsevidov in thesouth. According t
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