. Report of the cruise of the revenue cutter Bear and the overland expedition for the relief of the whalers in the Arctic ocean, from November 27, 1897, to September 13, 1898. OLD GOVERNMENT REFUGE STATION, POINT MR. C. D. BROWERS HOUSE AT POINT most northern habitation of a white man in Alaska. CRUISE OF THE U. S. REVENUE CUTTER BEAR. 81 dinary work of Mr. Lopp and Ms boys. Our plans to overcomethe many obstacles and difficulties bad been carried out almostexactly as we had laid them down. Loss of life or serious accident,which were always imminent, had been averted b
. Report of the cruise of the revenue cutter Bear and the overland expedition for the relief of the whalers in the Arctic ocean, from November 27, 1897, to September 13, 1898. OLD GOVERNMENT REFUGE STATION, POINT MR. C. D. BROWERS HOUSE AT POINT most northern habitation of a white man in Alaska. CRUISE OF THE U. S. REVENUE CUTTER BEAR. 81 dinary work of Mr. Lopp and Ms boys. Our plans to overcomethe many obstacles and difficulties bad been carried out almostexactly as we had laid them down. Loss of life or serious accident,which were always imminent, had been averted by extreme care,and we were now within 15 miles of our destination and in good con-dition and ready to take up the control of the situation at Point Bar-row, as we had been directed. March 29 was a beautiful, clear morning, cold and sharp, but witha cloudless sky and little or no wind, and, when we drew up at thesettlement at Point Barrow it seemed as if nature was trying to makeamends at last for the hard trial she had given us from Point Hopeup the coast. Passing rapidly by the village, and hy the old shantywhere the men were quartered, we drew up at the house of the CapeS my the Whaling and Trading Company, of which
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