June-October 1881, Cruise of the Corwin, Part II Image 139

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1881
• Subjects: John Muir; journals; drawings; writings; travel; journaling; naturalist; Gloom; Lawrence Island; Plover Bay; Rodger; St Lawrence Island
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/2141; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/3140/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg

kittiwakes, and Rodger gulls. Have no hope of being able to find our way into Plover Bay until the sky clears. See-saw, rolling from side to side in the huge swells, seams creaking, groaning, dishes clattering, rudder shaft grunting patiently. Temp. 42, wind howling, everybody complaining, many prof...