The Corwin's Cruise. At Ounalaska-An Aleutian Storm and Landscape. Snow Barriers and Glacier Footprints on the Aleutian Group. (Special Correspondence of the Bulletin.) Ounalaska, May 18, 1881.

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1881
• Subjects: Environmentalist; naturalist; travel; conservation; national parks; John Muir; history; pamphlets; journal articles; speeches; writing; annotation; Arctic; Jagged
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/155; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmb/article/1154/viewcontent/111.pdf

Written May 18,1881 Pub. June 20 " 7 THE CORWIN'S CRUISE. , At OuaaIasl:a—in Alesjtism Storm and Landscape. Snoiv Barriers and Glacier footprints oa- the Aleutian Group. [SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE EULLETIX.] T- i ;-. . '. J6vsxlaskx,' May 18,1881. The Storm King ot the North is abroad to- (laworking with a fine, hearty enthusiasm, -"foiling a multitude of white combing waves through the rocky, jagged straits between this marvelous chain of islands, circling them abont with beaten foam, and heaping a lavish abundance of snow on their lofty, cloud-wrapped mountains. The deep bass of the galesound- ingon through the rugged, ice-sculptured peaks and gorgets delightful music to our ears, now that,.cf'are safely sheltered in a land-locked ,barbor. THE COBWIN'S VOTAGE TO OUNALASKA. The steamer Thomas Corwin arrived here about noon to-day, after a prosperous run of il§, days from San Francisco, intending to take on. coal and additional supplies of every kind for her long cruise in the Arctic, in search of the Jeannette and missing whalers. Nothing especially noteworthy occurred on the voyage. The weather was remarkably cold for this season of the year, the average temperature for the fh-st clay or two being about 55 "degrees} gradually falling to .35(degrees as we approached Ouna- , ;,,. laska, accompanied by blustering squalls of snow and hail, suggestive of much higher latitudes ihan this. —- On the morning of the I15ttt we met a gale from the northeast, against which the Corwin forced her way with easy strength, rising and falling on the foam-streaked waves as. lightly as a duck. JVe first sighted land /This morning, the gale having abated somewhat and the tide being favorable, we ./weighed anetrar, and passed through the strait and round Collector Point into this magnificent harbor without further difficulty. ;An' ALEUTIAN SCENE—GLACIER ADVERTISEMENTS. . . Early in the forenoon the clouds lifted and the sun shone out, revealing a host of noble mountains, grandly sculptured and composed, and robed in spotless ...