The Wrangell sentinel., 1936-09-18

After one of the most extensive scIentIuc trIps taken n Alaska byI Lue BlologlcaI survey ana the All asKa Game UommlssIon, the Com lnlssIoH flagship Brown Rear, car fNIug the party arrived ill Juneau saturday nIgnl from the AleuuanI Islands and On Monday night lett TOT oeattie wnere the vessel will un-I uergo Us wlnIer overhaul, reports lue Juneau Empire.
 Wlth capt. John 0. SelleYOld inI eommana the brown Bear lett Ju-ll neau ln May tor the Aleutians tak-l Ing Dr. U. J. MurIe, Biologist with the survey, |. D. Williams, Biologist and Dr. Murle $ assistant, and WarU-I ens homer Jewell and Douglas Gr:.y.
 TOT three months capt. SeIlevold naYgateu tue LrIm vessel through Cne dangerous ana Ill many places uncnarCeu waters ot the Aleutian cham without a mlsnap, uesplte ter rIIlc fOgs and pad weather through out the LrIp. Due to the AleutIans being the meeting place or the Jap
 
 the cold winds rom the beung Sea on the norJh, weather condluons a long the Isiauu group are overcast virtually all the time, the party re- ported.
 Charts Off
 Dr. Nitric reported there were places where the charts were off IS much as five miles, but never once did the Brown Bear scrape a rock or get into any difficulty.
 One of the most interesting things the Brown Bear party uncovered OH the entire trip, and that aside from their wild life study, was the dis covery of old Indian burial caves on Kagamil Island, about half way out in the Aleutian chain. One cave was located about 200 yards from large steam jet coming out of the side of the cliff. For years the steam has been pouring out of the side of the cliff and came out with such force that it is impossible to hold a heavy object against it's pres sure, the party reported. In the caves they found several mummies. many of them in perfect condition, revealing that the early Aleuts, long l before the arrival of the Russians, were cOnVersant with embalming. The mummies were doubled up and in seal skin sacks. Some of them were turned over to Dr. Ales Hrd- | licka of the Smithsonian Institute. who was on a scientific trip to AL aska this summer, and he declared 1 the discovery one of the most valu- | able contributions which had been made to science in Alaska this year. He declared it one of the high spots of his trip to the north this sum- mer. --fter the Brown Bear party had gone on, the Hrdlicka party yis- tied the caves later in the season and found much of great value in 1 their research work.
 At Nelson Island
 At Nelson Island the Nitric party found four villages of 300 natives with two teachers and one Catholic missionary. In this low, rolling tundra country fuel is at prem ium and drift wood is used exclus- ively. Last winter several fami- lies were out of fire for at least five weeks and huddled together in their barabaras, or sod and dirt built houses, and lived on cold fish to keep alive. This year the beaches are covered with wood and one can see stacks of drift wood which has been piled up by the natives for their winter use, the party reported
 Nelson Island is a meeting area for Black Brant, one of the few this side of the Arctic coast, and al Q it is a great goose nesting country. The natives lave their own lang uage, consisting almost entirely of consonants with but rarely a vow el, and live almost exclusively in the mud and sod houses A few wood houses have been built in the last four years.
 At Nunivak
 At Nunivak Island, where 150 na- tives reside, the party saw the 31 muskox which were transferred