Rodman Bay, Alaska. Aug. 12 to 20 1907. Rodman Bay is in the northern part of Baranoff Island, and is entered from Peril Strait. The surrounding mountains are comparatively smooth and are thickly timbered up to about 2,000 feet altitude, the highest being about three thousand feet high. We camped at the head of the bay, at the nearly deserted mining camp of the Rodman Company. A narrow gauge railway runs up the creek 7 miles to the mine, but a hand car is the only means of locomotion available now. Hasselborg was the only one of our party that went up to the mine. I ascended the mountain east of camp, alt. 2,800 feet, and found it the easiest climb of any mountain I have been up in Alaska. I got practically nothing; though the higher part was open and comparatively level for miles, with an abundance of "grass". Humpback salmon were abundant in the creeks. The head of the bay is a poor place for shells; too much fresh water. I saw no butterflies and but few moths.