Title

At Metchigme Bay. Glacier Work at Plover Bay-A Crazy Native-His Idiosyncracies and Attempted Suicide. Steamer Corwin. Near the Mouth of Metchigme Bay, On the west side of Behring Strait, June 27, 1881.

Authors

John Muir

Files

Kimes Entry Number

122

Original Date

8-16-1881

William and Maymie Kimes Annotation

While the Corwin was taking on coal at Plover Bay ""from a pile belonging to his Majesty, the Czar of Russia"" Muir seized the opportunity to climb the east wall of the fjord. He relates that ""as the day was clear, I obtained capital views of the mountains on both sides, and around the head of the fiord among the numerous ice fountains which during the glacial winter, poured their tribute through this magnificent channel into the Behring Sea.""

Publication

San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, Aug. 16, 1881

Page/Column

p. 1, cols. 1-2

See also Kimes Entry Number

See also: no. 341, v. 7, pp. 93-100; no. 347, pp. 85-91

Recommended Citation

Muir, John, "At Metchigme Bay. Glacier Work at Plover Bay-A Crazy Native-His Idiosyncracies and Attempted Suicide. Steamer Corwin. Near the Mouth of Metchigme Bay, On the west side of Behring Strait, June 27, 1881." (1881). John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes, 1986 (Muir articles 1866-1986). 163.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmb/163