Arizona republican., 1901-03-14

and several varieties of bear, all of which are on the way to the museum. When seen by a Mail and Express re- porter at the Bartholdl hotel, MT. Stone talked most interestingly of his trip.
 The Kenai is a country with many peculiar and remarkable features he said. Tt has many active volcanoes and living glaciers, it often experiences earthquakes. its vegetation is almost tropical. animal life is most abundant and there are extensive fields of burn ing Ignite coal Then there are onor- nous tiderips, which sweep in from the ocean and take vessels on the inlets un- awares. The water backs in with great force and while on the surface it may be perfectly smooth, there is whirling vortex underneath which turns a vessel completely around"
 TRAVELLING DIFFICULTIES.
 Did you experience much difficulty in traveling?"
 Many a time we walked in snow up to our waists. In the mountains, ot course, travel was especially difficult as the storms later in the season were binding and almost continual. For two weeks we had nothing to eat but the fresh meat my hunters could pro- cure by shocking moose or bear, and the tea we carried with us. But that is not a hardship compared with some of the experiences had further up in the Arctic egions on previous trips. More than once l have gone without
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 On these previous trips Mir. Stones discoveries and reports completely changed the coast line of the northern edge of the continent as we knew 1t on the map. He traveled by sled along the Arctic coast for distance of nearly 1900 miles. which is said to be the longest trip of the kind ever made.
 Did you make any geographical dis coveries this time?" Mir. Stone was asked.
 'On the Kenai," he replied, there is a beautiful snow-clad mountain range which seems to have been ignored by all previous expeditions along this coast. The range extends from Cape Elizabeth, the southwestern extermity of the Kenai, along its entire length, a distance of about 200 miles, and con meets with the Alaskan Alps in the in- terlor. It Is one of the grandest and most picturesque mountain ranges in North America. and contains, per- haps, the greatest number of glaciers. named it the Osborne mountain range, in honor of Prof. Henry F. Os- borne, vice president of the American Museum of Natural History"
 DELAYED BY STORMS.
 How long were you on the Kenai?"
 From the middle of August until the first of January much longer than expected; but travel was greatly de- layed, owing to the fearful torms on the Alaskan coast all winter. The two steamers that l expected to take. first in November and then in December, | were wrecked and there was much loss of life along the coast.
 Finally the Aloha, which had been !, aground on the rocks off the Aleutian | Islands. where her bottom was ground i to pulp, came along, and. rather than . stay in Alaska all winter. took my | chances on her She was a frail craft |
 
 the way from Homer to Juneau. dis tance of about thousand miles. She leaked continually.
 Our route was along a terribly | rocky coast, where the surf breaks | thirty feet or higher in storm, and ! If our boat had collapsed, there would have been no hope of landing a life boat short time before the Bertha, a good. strong vessel. encountered such | a storm along this same route that she had to lay to for five days and devote Y all her efforts to saving herself.
 However, we encountered phenom- enal weather. All the old travellers said it was exceptional. We met no [ storms. and our poor old boat reached Janeau safely in ten days, wonderful piece of luck for us all.'