. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. SIBERIA 99 shallow; it has many islands; and in summer it is nearly always draped in fog. But our host was a man not easy to turn back; in five minutes he was romping with his children again as if nothing had happened. But the ship's course was changed to southeast, around Walrus Island. It did indeed look for a while as if we had more than half a mind to turn back. But in a couple of hours we were headed toward Siberia again and went plunging through the fog and obscurity with our ' ferocious whistle,' as Pro- fessor Emerson characterized
. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. SIBERIA 99 shallow; it has many islands; and in summer it is nearly always draped in fog. But our host was a man not easy to turn back; in five minutes he was romping with his children again as if nothing had happened. But the ship's course was changed to southeast, around Walrus Island. It did indeed look for a while as if we had more than half a mind to turn back. But in a couple of hours we were headed toward Siberia again and went plunging through the fog and obscurity with our ' ferocious whistle,' as Pro- fessor Emerson characterized it, tearing the silence, and with it our sleep, to tatters. The next day, the ioth, we hoped to touch at the Island of St. Matthew, but we missed it in the thick obscurity and searching for it was hazardous, so we went again northward. The fog continued on the nth till nearly noon, when we ran into clear air and finally into sunshine, and in the early afternoon the coast of Siberia lay before us like a cloud upon the hor- izon— Asia at last, crushed down there on the rim of the world as if with the weight of her cen- turies and her cruel Czar's iniquities. As we drew near, her gray, crumbling, de- crepit granite bluffs and mountains, streaked with snow, helped the illusion. This was the old world indeed. Our destination was Plover Bay, where at six in the afternoon we dropped anchor behind a long crescent-shaped sand spit that put out from the eastern shore. On this sand spit was an Eskimo encampment of skin-covered huts which was soon astir with moving forms. Presently eight of the figures. ESKIMO SKIN HUTS OR ' TOPEKS, PLOVER BAY, 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; Wash
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