Manning (1914) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Re: Manning (1914) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Taking the indirect route from Kodiak to Port Etches. Or, perhaps the navigator had a premonition of those mazes you follow when in a line at a bank or airport...
There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile,
July 28 to July 31
Re: Manning (1914) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Practicing evasive action? 
Re: Manning (1914) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Interesting... the indirect one looks like a patrol route - maybe for smugglers/poachers, since the US was not in WW1 at the time?
The crooked one looks like a stock market graph!
The crooked one looks like a stock market graph!
Re: Manning (1914) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
In https://catalog.archives.gov/OpaAPI/med ... 4_0266.JPG they are doing quite a bit of sounding...
They are also busy building reindeer pens....
They are also busy building reindeer pens....
Re: Manning (1914) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
As I recall, during those months they were mostly looking for seal poachers.
Re: Manning (1914) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
October 15
Garden Cove
The difficulties of living in the north where you are so dependent on good weather for getting in and out. I knew of cases in the Canadian north where weather observers would exaggerate the height of the cloud ceiling and the visibility if they knew it would "encourage" a supply plane to make a scheduled flight into their village instead of waiting for better weather.
October 16
East Anchorage, Saint Paul Island
East Anchorage, Saint Paul Island
Garden Cove
The difficulties of living in the north where you are so dependent on good weather for getting in and out. I knew of cases in the Canadian north where weather observers would exaggerate the height of the cloud ceiling and the visibility if they knew it would "encourage" a supply plane to make a scheduled flight into their village instead of waiting for better weather.
1:15 Anchored in Garden Cove. ...
Mr. Proctor, government agent, came aboard and stated that the sea was heavy at the village landing and that it had been so for 10 days. He also stated that the freight could not be landed nor the seal skins taken aboard at Garden Cove, as they could not be transported over the trail.
1:45 Landed 3 sacks of mail. George Haly and wife, government school teachers, were landed with a portion of their luggage.
October 16
East Anchorage, Saint Paul Island
October 173:40 Received of H. C. Fassett, agent and caretaker for transportation to Seattle, Washington, and delivery thereat to an agent of the Bureau of Fisheries, the following:
- Nine hundred and two bundles of fur seal pelts, each said to contain two skins;
- Six boxes of foxes said to contain one hundred and forty-nine blue fox skins and twenty four white fox skins.
East Anchorage, Saint Paul Island
4:00 Freight for St. George Island was taken ashore by a native boat. Received 37 barrels, said to contain one thousand and eighty fur-seal skins in apparent good order and 2 boxes said to contain 96 good blue fox skins, 10 poor blue fox skins, 5 pieces of blue fox skins and 1 good white fox skin from St. George Island for delivery to the Bureau of Fisheries, Seattle, Washington.
Re: Manning (1914) -- Discussion: Questions, Comments and Coordination
Michael wrote: ↑Thu Jul 15, 2021 11:20 pm Nine hundred and two bundles of fur seal pelts, each said to contain two skins;
Six boxes of foxes said to contain one hundred and forty-nine blue fox skins and twenty four white fox skins.
Received 37 barrels, said to contain one thousand and eighty fur-seal skins in apparent good order and 2 boxes said to contain 96 good blue fox skins, 10 poor blue fox skins, 5 pieces of blue fox skins and 1 good white fox skin from St. George Island
