We made our permanent camp in a large barabara, a form of house so often seen in western Alaska that it deserves a brief description.

It has no windows, but a large hole in the roof permits light to enter and serves also as an outlet for the smoke from the fire, which is built on a rough hearth in the middle of the barabara.

The one which we now occupied was quite large, with ample space to stow away our various belongings, and we made ourselves most comfortable, while our Aleuts occupied the small banya, or Russian bathhouse, which is also generally found by the side of the barabara.

Shuyak is uninhabited, but some natives have hunting barabaras there.

o'clock in the morning, we cautiously withdrew, and, going some distance down the shore, camped in an old hunting barabara.

We camped that night in a hunting barabara which belonged to Nikolai, and was most picturesquely situated on a small island.

While I was having tea in one of the barabaras I heard much shooting outside, which announced the return of a sea otter party that had been hunting for two months at Cape Douglas.

They live in dwellings kept very hot, and both men and women injure themselves by immoderate indulgence in the banya, a small Turkish bath, often attached to the barabaras, or native huts.

It is made like a small barabara, except there is no smoke hole, has a similar frame, is thatched with straw, and can be made air-tight.

If the natives find no sign on their morning tour, they rest all day, perhaps taking a Turkish bath in a banya, which is not infrequently attached to the hunting barabara.

Once in Kaluda Bay, we found Kidder's and Blake's barabara where they made headquarters, and their cook informed us that both sportsmen were many miles up the bay after bear.

Several years ago there was a flourishing colony of natives at the entrance to Kaluda Bay, but now there are only two hunting barabaras, a broken down chapel, and a good-sized graveyard.

Although we had a good tent with us, we used, for the most part, the native hunting barabara for shelter.

High above the den where the three bears were killed was a scoop out of the cliff called the shaman's barabara.

Two bears had been killed by the natives near the barabara where we camped, and there was plenty of sign.