Alaska field notes, v4411
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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