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Identifier: sealsalmonfisher03jord (find matches)
Title: Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Jordon, David Starr, 1851-1931 Elliott, Henry Wood, 1846-1930 Maynard, Washburn, 1844- Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909 Morris, William Gouverneur, d. 1884 Petroff, Ivan, b. 1842 Townsend, Charles Haskins, 1859-1944 True, Frederick William, 1858-1914 Brice, John J Stejneger, Leonhard, 1851-1943 United States. Dept. of the Treasury. Special Agents Division
Subjects: Bering Sea controversy Sealing Fisheries
Publisher: Washington : Govt. Printing Office
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MBLWHOI Library

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ter Lincoln that they lost their lives in thatsurf through sheer carelessness. The gig in which they were coming ashorebroached to in the breakers just outside of the cove, and their lifeless formswere soon after thrown up by the merciless waves on the Lagoon rookery. Threegraves of these men are plainly marked on the slope of the Black Bluffs. There is a false air of listlessness and gentleness about an oi^en sea, or roadsteadroller, that is very apt to deceive even watermen of good understanding. Thecrushing, overwhelming power with which an ordinary breaker will hurl a largeships boat on rocks awash must be personally experienced ere it is halfappreciated. The bundled skins are carried from the salt houses to the baidar, when the orderfor shipment is given, and pitched into that lighter one by one, to be rapidlystowed: 700 to 1,200 bundles make the average single load; then, when alongsidethe steamer, they are again tossed up and on her deck, from whence they arestowed in the hold.
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