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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo18amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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.'^^wSr* - - -^«~ A steamer trip through Beagle Channel or Smyth's Channel in winter is most interesting. The snow-covered islands with narrow channels between are always presenting new views of surpassing beauty, and although the fog may hang low for a time, one always has the hope that the next turn of the channel will reveal sunshine ahead
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At liiTtrand Island which lies only fifty uulcs iiortli of fapi' Horn, a few hundred sheep are raised yearly. The owner transports the surplus animals in his schooner "Antarctica" to Ushuaia, a small town in Tierra del Fuego, and his sailors are shown here passing a cargo from the lighter to the hands on board. The high price of wool and mutton makes the business a profitable one at present 112 equal of the sooty shear- waters. They scratched and screamed and were ut- terly unmanageable, abso- lutely refusing to remain in any position in the nest where their heads would show. After several birds were tried, I finally took one photograph with the bird ramming her head far up in a crack in the after part of the nest. Alaskan scenes were brought back to memory here also when I unexpectedly flushed a large seed snipe from the top of a rock-cTowned ridge. The actions and color of the bird were so

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