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Hawk Inlet
Admiralty Island.
We left Port Frederick on the
morning of Aug. 1; stopped on the
way at Hooniah, and made Hawk
Inlet about 2 o'clock in the after-
noon. The land around Hawk
Inlet slopes back in large rolling
hills to the large flat topped
mountains some 4000 feet high.
Timber line is much higher
here than on Chichagof as it aver-
aged about 3000 feet to 1500 feet on
Chichagof. There were two salmon
creeks coming into the mouths of
Hawk Inlet and the dog salmon
and "shrimpies" were running upsteam
in large numbers. Bears were
fairly common around these salmon
streams but they did not venture
down near the beach as they had
been hunted so much that they
had become wary. Back about
two miles from the beach there