A Summer in Alaska: A Popular Account of the Travels of an Alaska Exploring Expedition Along the Great Yukon River, from Its Source to Its Mouth, in the British North-west Territory, and in the Territory of AlaskaJ.W. Henry, 1891 - 418 strani A popular account of the travels of an Alaska exploring expedition along the great Yukon River, from its source to its mouth, in the British North-west Territory, and in the Territory of Alaska. |
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... floating cakes of ice , we caught sight of the main lake in the afternoon , and in a few hours were upon its banks at a point where a beautiful mountain stream came tumbling in , with enough swift water to necessitate crossing on a log ...
... floating cakes of ice , we caught sight of the main lake in the afternoon , and in a few hours were upon its banks at a point where a beautiful mountain stream came tumbling in , with enough swift water to necessitate crossing on a log ...
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... float . I did not feel disposed to build a couple of such cumbersome craft to traverse so short a distance . A southern gale setting in shortly after their departure , with waves running on the lake a foot or two high , was too terrible ...
... float . I did not feel disposed to build a couple of such cumbersome craft to traverse so short a distance . A southern gale setting in shortly after their departure , with waves running on the lake a foot or two high , was too terrible ...
Stran 96
... float it well out into the lake , and as the rude sail was spread to the increasing wind , the primitive craft commenced a journey that was destined to measure over thirteen hundred miles before the rough ribs of knots and bark were ...
... float it well out into the lake , and as the rude sail was spread to the increasing wind , the primitive craft commenced a journey that was destined to measure over thirteen hundred miles before the rough ribs of knots and bark were ...
Stran 117
... float down with the current in the streams , and pole and sail across the lakes . By comparing these logs with tele- graph poles one has a good idea of the usual size of the timber of these districts . The scarcity of good wooden canoes ...
... float down with the current in the streams , and pole and sail across the lakes . By comparing these logs with tele- graph poles one has a good idea of the usual size of the timber of these districts . The scarcity of good wooden canoes ...
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... Floating down the river , and coming near any of the low marshy points , we were at once visited by myriads of small black gnats which formed a very unsolicited addition to the millions of mosquitoes , the number of which did not ...
... Floating down the river , and coming near any of the low marshy points , we were at once visited by myriads of small black gnats which formed a very unsolicited addition to the millions of mosquitoes , the number of which did not ...
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Stran 373 - That whenever the summit of the mountains which extend in a direction parallel to the coast from the 56th degree of north latitude to the point of intersection of the 141st degree of west longitude shall prove to be at the distance of more than ten marine leagues from the ocean, the limit between the British possessions and the line of coast which is to belong to Russia as above mentioned...
Stran 373 - ... point the line of demarcation shall follow the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast, as far as the point of intersection of the 141st degree of west longitude, (of the same meridian); and finally, from the said point of intersection, the said meridian line of the 141st degree, in its prolongation as far as the Frozen Ocean.
Stran 373 - Island, which point lies in the parallel of 54 degrees 40 minutes north latitude, and between the 131st and the 133d degree of west longitude, (meridian of Greenwich.) the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude...
Stran 373 - ... north latitude, and (between the 131st and 133d degree of west longitude (meridian of Greenwich,) the said line shall ascend to the north along the channel called Portland channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude; from this last mentioned point, the line of demarcation shall follow the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast...
Stran 31 - ... bottom, though there must have been fully thirty or forty feet of water where we made our observations. On one of the large islands in Sitka harbor, called Japanese Island, an old Niphon junk was cast, early in the present century, and her small crew of Japanese were rescued by the Russians. Sitka has been so often described that it is unnecessary to do more than refer the reader to other accounts of the place.
Stran 11 - The people of the United States will not be quick to take to the idea that the volume of water in an Alaskan river is greater than that discharged by the mighty Mississippi; but it is entirely within the bounds of honest statement to say that the Yukon river . . . discharges every hour one-third more water than the
Stran 361 - Strait, in a succession of rolling, ice-bound moors and low mountain ranges for 700 miles, an unbroken waste, to the boundary line of British America. Then, again, from the crests at the head of Cook's Inlet and the flanks of Mount St. Elias northward over that vast area of rugged mountain and lonely moor to the east — nearly 800 miles — is a great expanse of country, over and through which not much intelligent exploration has been undertaken.
Stran 370 - The method of killing the sea-otter is virtually the same in all sections frequented by it. The killing of fur-seals is accomplished entirely on land, and has been reduced almost to a science of the greatest dispatch and system. The able-bodied Aleuts now settled upon the two islands of Saint Paul and Saint George are, by the terms of the agreement between themselves and the lessees, the only individuals permitted to kill and skin the seals for the annual shipment as long as they are able to perform...
Stran 373 - Channel, as far as the point of the continent where it strikes the 56th degree of north latitude ; from this last-mentioned point, the line of demarcation shall follow the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast, as far as the point of intersection of the 141st degree of west longitude...
Stran 284 - ... the rapid rate of travel through their country, and although in general a very friendly tribe to encounter away from home, they have always opposed any exploration of their country. The trader's companion had suggested and promoted the journey as a quasi scientific expedition, and he collected a few skulls of the natives and some botanical specimens, but no maps*or notes were made of the trip, and it was afterward said by the Alaska Company's employes that the explorer was an envoy of the ''...