The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-28

while the thrasher eats he whales tongue After the battle the waters are red with blood.
 May 23 we stopped at Sand Point for two passengers about sn houc and while there the boys caught some thir- ty or forty large codfish. We ara HOW passing the new volcano that has re- gently burst forth on Acatan Island. There are 250 volcanoes on the penin- sula and among the Alution Islands, but only a few of them are active. We sail 300 miles along the coat of Kadiak Island, Here the largest and most tero- cious bears in the world are found.
 Friday, May "A, we are entering the harbor of Unalaska and Priest rock stands a silent 9dael while the. old volcanoes are poa s out their smoke from the snow capsd heights. This is one of the finest natural harbors in the world. Dutch Harbor and Unalaska are two islands side by side. They are government coaling stations. The North American Commercial company have their trading post at Dutch Har- bor. They have the concession from the United States to kill all the fur seal. The Alaska Commercial com pany have their trading post at Un- alaska and they use to have the seal industry and kill 100000 a year but the North American Commercial company now only kill 15,000 year of the three-year old male, but the Jap and English poachers kill so many they are decreasing every year and it looks as if it would not take many years for them to become exterminat- ed The sea otter industry used to be the great industry here twenty-five or thirty years ago. MT, Grey the United States commissioner told me that friend of his twenty-five years ago killed 130 sea otter one afternoon, and now they only get ten or twelve in a year. He showed me one he had that was worth $1,5OO.
 The new Island that appeared at the time of the destruction of San Fran cisco is seventy miles west of here and forms one of the Bassgroff group. Steam had been seen coming up for several months before the island was seen. The water boiled for some time around the island and it steamed for months afterwards, It Is about a half mile long and a great mass of rocks. An island came up here in 1S4C and one In 1870.
 We left Unalaska Sunday morning May 26 at o'clock and started out into the Bearing sea. We have come 5000 miles and are now $50 miles from Nome, making no more stops until we reach Nome, May 29. We are in a great sea of ice and as far as the eye can see in all directions there is ice ice, floating ice. Icebergs and great cakes are sailing by forming all kinds of panoramic pictures, with groups oi hair seal and walrous looking IT with those great pleading eyes from their icy homes as they float by ant doubtless wondering what we are 1T their arctic home for They are very tame when not molested. The Corwir is sheathed with iron bark for plough, ing through the ice. It is very inter. testing to watch her as she smashes into the great cakes sending them fl all ways, for the ice at this season i! very rotten. We all fell perfectly safe with Capt. West, for he Is consid cred one of the most careful and able captains of the Arctic. Mrs. West al {ne i, L~a4I New Englanders as their home Is il Massachusetts He of course has { great task, being the only captain who will take steamer in at this sea son and when we get into the ice i means no sleep for him until he get us out of it.
 May 31 we were tied up to a larg, ice berg, this morning getting fresl water. You can always find large hole in the ice bergs at this season that ar full of fresh water,
 Saturday, June found us at Nom, and the whole city has gathered ol the beach to welcome us for our boa Is the first one in, and the first steam CT arriving after the winters exile means the greatest gala in the yea for Nome. Everything is booming ant very prosperous, as there were man, rich finds made last winter and Nom is to-day one of the richest placer mining camps in the world. It look now as though this would be the mos prosperous summer that Nome ha' ever had.
 June il the Victoria and Ohio cam in with over 1000 people The Presi dent is on the way with 1000 and sev eral other large steamers are nov due. Very truly,
 | A H. DIINIAM