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Kodiak. July 3, 1899 Dear Louie - I sent you a word from Homer, as Katchemak Bay, a branch of Cook Inlet last week when
we intended to go on up the main Inlet to the head. But the plans were changed we sailed across the mouth of the Inlet down
the coast of the Alaska peninsula to Kukak Bay where at midnight a party of ornithologists mice catchers were landed with
their presses traps to work a week or so. Thence we sailed to Yuyak Bay on the northwest side of Kodiak Island near the famous
Karluk canning station, a charming place embosomed? in green hills mountains where the hunters of big game were sent off to
hunt in the interior of the island. bears moose etc. Carrying guns baggage plans enough for a Marsilla? campaign. Thence we
came here by way of the beautiful Northern Narrow straits to this old Russian town arriving last Saturday afternoon. The weather
is delightful everybody is happy well. The hills mountains up to the snow are marvelously flowery plushy green Not even the
Emerald Isle is so softly richly brilliantly green. The Sitka spruce Western Mountain hemlocks form fine forests all along
the coast this far, or rather to Cook Inlet. Here less than a fifth of the Coast region is forested only with 02598