"March northward About the middle of May the gray whales appear off Umnak again and then are all going northward. All at this times calves are with the females. The northward migration lasts for about two months, the whales all having passed Umnak by the middle of May. Eventually the gray whales are more regular both in terms of breeding and in migrations than are other whales. When seen at Umnak only or the northward or southward migrations Capt. Melson says that the animals an apparently not feeding, that they are traveling steadily at about 3 or four knots per hour. They keep in close & they sometimes almost as the rocks, so close in fact that many times the ship can not follow them. They do not raise themselves high out of the water and every one says they are very cute; sometimes they will come up to blow showing only the blowhole and a few inches of the head near it keeping the back entirely under. They usually