church mouse to avoid swamp [31] ing. The shore was bordered with a heap of kelp and other seaweed two feet high and ten feet wide which made a bad place for landing, when our tender bow stuck in this pile, the following gentle surf wave curled over the stem and wet us in good shape and our condition was not im- proved by wading through the seaweed. We found the natives drying, salting and smoking sea trout, which are abundant in the bay. We bought some fine fresh ones for the equivalent of a few cents in American money and then the Eskimo threw in two large trout for a bit of tobacco, the natives being extravagantly