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Updated: May 9, 2025
Hazlett were uneasy enough when finally the Bennington steamed majestically through the narrow mouth of Kaludiak Bay the first steamer ever to awaken the echoes there and finally swung to her anchor at a point indicated by the Aleut chief. But to the whistle there came no answer of a rifle-shot, no signal fluttered, and no smoke was seen.
Without delay the Bennington once more took up her course and, emerging from the mouth of Kaludiak, headed northward up the east side of the island. Within ten miles the sharp-eyed Aleut detected a flat bit of beach, and the interpreter suggested that a boat be sent ashore to examine it, as it was sometimes used as a camping-place.
Had the boys known it, they were, in their camp near the head of Kaludiak Bay, not more than thirty miles distant across the mountain passes to the head of Uyak Bay, which makes in on the west side of the island, and which was the first great inlet to be searched by the boat crews of the Bennington.
At the head of one of these bays, had they but known it, there were salmon rivers where fishing-boats occasionally stopped; but all that they could do was to use the best of their wisdom and their strength, and they kept on, steadily pulling, believing that the tide had turned, whereas in truth they were going down the coast still with the tide and approaching the mouth of the vast crooked bay known as Kaludiak, half-way down the east coast of the great island.
"I have to report, sir, that I think we've got word of those boys!" he said, eagerly, as he saluted. "How's that? Where? Go on, sir!" "There's a big boat party back from Kaludiak Bay, sir. They were in there on a whale-hunt several weeks ago. They saw a camp with three white boys and one refugee Aleut." "Arrest every man Jack of them and bring them in!" roared Captain Stephens.
"Me good mans!" he repeated, beating on his chest. "He says that he's got a boy of his own over there with the others in Kaludiak Bay. He's got a message written out by the boys, but the truth is he was afraid to go to town with it. Says the renegade Aleut over there was a good hunter, but a dangerous man he stole their sacred whale harpoon here and made away with it "
At that time there were no waves of consequence, only a long, slow motion like the pulse of the sea which came down from the outer mouth of great Kaludiak Bay. The wind had not yet risen, although steadily the twilight seemed to thicken. For three-quarters of an hour they made good progress. Then they noticed that their boat began to pitch a little, and small, choppy waves raced by.
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