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Title: Big game shooting in Alaska
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Radclyffe, C. R. E. (Charles Robert Eustace)
Subjects: Hunting -- Alaska Game and game-birds -- Alaska
Publisher: London : R. Ward
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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be expected from former experiences, thesteamer Jyonook was several days late in arriving at Saldoviafor her trip up the inlet. It was August 7 before she finallyarrived there. Leaving our bear skins and other trophies atCleghorns store, we went on board, and reached Kussiloffabout midnight. Here we landed, and were received by Mr.Wetherbee, the hospitable manager of the Alaska PackersCannery. He put us up for the night, and next day gave usthe use of an empty hut where Glyn and I took up ourquarters. Little in the meanwhile went on to Kenai tocollect natives and a fresh supply of stores for our trip up intothe sheep and moose country. Three days later four nativesarrived with a dory from Kenai carrying a lot of stores, andat once they started off to tow the dory some fifteen miles up I/: BIG GAME SHOOTING IX ALASKA the river to Kussiloff Lake, which is otherwise known asLake Tustamena. Here they were to estabhsh a base camp,and return again to tow up a second dory with the remainder
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Snatching Dog Salmon, Saldovia Creek, July 1903. ofour belongings. On the second day, however, after leaving,they returned without having covered more than half thedistance, as two of their number were taken ill with mumps,and they came back terribly frightened with their heads IX BACK TO THE KENAI PENINSULA 173 bandaged up. On returning to cook our supper that eveningGlyn and I found the invaUds and two other men makingthemselves thoroughly at home in our cabin. The twopatients were calmly sitting on our beds, and probably fillingthe room with microbes of the mumps, whilst the other twowere peaceably cooking themselves a meal of the bestluxuries they could find in the house. I was charmed withtheir free-and-easy manners, and so was Glyn, who had neverpreviously had mumps, and daily expected them for sometime after. I endeavoured to reason with them in a suavemanner, which ended in my almost kicking the lot out of thehouse. This meant a further delay to collect more natives,and it was

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