. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. 102 JOHN BURROUGHS crow, riding astride its mother's neck, cried and yelled vigorously as we approached. The sun was bright but the air was very chilly, the mer- cury standing at about 380 Fahr. We were with- in 120 miles of the Arctic cir- cle. The slen- der peninsula we were on is a few hundred feet wide; it is UNFINISHED ESKIMO WINTER HOUSE: CIRCULAR FRAME Hiarshy in S01Tie OF WHALE BONES, FILLED WITH SOD. pkceS, t)Ut for the most part dry and covered with herbage. Here was the yellow poppy blooming, and two species of saxifrage. In my w
. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. 102 JOHN BURROUGHS crow, riding astride its mother's neck, cried and yelled vigorously as we approached. The sun was bright but the air was very chilly, the mer- cury standing at about 380 Fahr. We were with- in 120 miles of the Arctic cir- cle. The slen- der peninsula we were on is a few hundred feet wide; it is UNFINISHED ESKIMO WINTER HOUSE: CIRCULAR FRAME Hiarshy in S01Tie OF WHALE BONES, FILLED WITH SOD. pkceS, t)Ut for the most part dry and covered with herbage. Here was the yellow poppy blooming, and two species of saxifrage. In my walk I came upon a large patch of ground covered with a small low pink primrose. The ground was painted by it. But the prettiest flower we found was a low forget- me-not, scarcely an inch high, of deep ultramarine blue — the deepest, most intense blue I ever saw in a wild flower. Here also we saw and heard the Lapland long- spur and the yellow wagtail. A flock of male eider ducks was seen in the PORT CLARENCE. We traveled two hours in Asia. I am tempted to write a book on the country, but forbear. At eight o'clock we steamed away along the coast toward Indian Point, in an unending twilight. We reached the point at midnight, but the surf was running so high that no landing was attempted. Then we stood off across Bering Strait for Port Clarence in Alaska, where we hoped to take water,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899); Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909; Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942; Washington Academy of Sciences (Washington, D. C. ). New York, Doubleday, Page & Company
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