An Ice-Bound Shore. Cruising along the Edge of 'the Pack'-Off Wrangel Land. 'Hove to' in an Arctic Gale-The Corwin's Misadventures. Aboriginal Merchant Middlemen of Two Continents. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Steamer Corwin, Arctic Ocean, Between Herald Shoals and Point Hope, September 3, 1881.

• Language: unknown
• Published: San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Oct. 27, 1881 1881
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Hove; Point Hope; Diomede Island; eskimo*
• Online Access: http://cdm16745.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16745coll2/id/1440

Concerning a visit to an Eskimo village on Diomede Island, Muir comments: ""The Diomede merchants are true middlemen, and their village a half-way house of commerce between Northeastern Asia and America. The extent of dealings of these people, usually regarded as savages, is truly surprisi...