Homeward Bound. End of the Corwin's Cruise in the Arctic Ocean. Elephant Point-A Fossil Glacier and its Exuberant Vegetation. Shipwrecked Prospectors-An Alaskan Silver Mine and Oonalaska Scenery. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Steamer Corwin, Oonalaska, October 4, 1881.

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• Published: San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Oct. 31 1881
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Elephant Point
• Online Access: http://cdm16745.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16745coll2/id/1443

At Kotzebue Sound while the Corwin was being repaired, Muir explored a remnant glacier at Elephant Point, so named for the fossilized tusks found there. Of their two weeks' stay at Unalaska, Muir writes that it ""has been restful after our long cruise-about fourteen thousand miles alt...