In Tamal Land

IN TAMAL LAND

IN THE COVE.

IN TAMAL LAND

skilfully handled by her skipper, just managed to reach the Golden Gate.
"Water-logged and mauled, the gallant Tropic Bird was then unfit to further cope with the elements, and, after being converted into a boarding house at the foot of Telegraph Hill by her courageous Captain, she was later sold and beached at Tiburon, where she now rests, her labors o'er, a worthy ship with a peaceful, useful old age."
Belvedere--beautiful Belvedere it is called, and with justice, too; for who could view this thickly wooded hillside with its charming villas without exclaiming Beautiful! These villas are interspersed with graceful irregularity amid their leafy setting, the sparkling water at their feet, gay in summer, with house-boats, launches, yachts and other craft is resonant of one theme, united in one chord--the care-free, happy, guileless merriment which does more to erase the worry lines begotten of cities than all the lotions ever prepared. And

BELVEDERE.

IN TAMAL LAND

this, in truth, is the veritable home of the sportsman, for across the cove on the Tiburon side is situated the Corinthian Yacht Club, famous in yachting annals.
   However gay this little cove may appear by day it is by the pale light of 'the moon that Belvedere, like Venice, is at her best; for the harsher lines of fact are mellowed, and imagination gives the floating habitations a fairy aspect, while the strains of the military band from the Island but lend to the fantasy.
   On the opposite side of Belvedere is situated one of the most prosperous industries conducted in Marin County.
   Nestling at the base of the cliffs on an extensive wharf built for the purpose are the buildings of the Union Fish Company. The Company has several fishing stations in Alaska., the most extensive of which are on the Shumagin and Popof Islands. A schooner plying between the stations and this port brings the fish direct to the fishery, where they are prepared for use.
   At the time of our visit, the schooner, which had arrived

AN ARTISTIC CHURCH.