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, 1893 - 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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... Tahk - heesh Indians , or as they are locally called by the few whites of the country , the Sticks , a peaceful tribe whose home is over the Alaskan coast range of mountains and along the head - waters of the great Yukon , the very part ...
... Tahk - heesh Indians , or as they are locally called by the few whites of the country , the Sticks , a peaceful tribe whose home is over the Alaskan coast range of mountains and along the head - waters of the great Yukon , the very part ...
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... Tahk - heesh or Sticks were allowed to come abroad so the white men were allowed and , in fact , induced to enter , for the coast Indians found ample compensation in carrying the white men's goods over the trail of about thirty miles at ...
... Tahk - heesh or Sticks were allowed to come abroad so the white men were allowed and , in fact , induced to enter , for the coast Indians found ample compensation in carrying the white men's goods over the trail of about thirty miles at ...
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... Tahk - heesh Indians camped near us were hunting black bear , which were said to be abundant in this locality , an assertion which seemed to be verified by the large num- ber of tracks we saw in the valley . From this band of Indians we ...
... Tahk - heesh Indians camped near us were hunting black bear , which were said to be abundant in this locality , an assertion which seemed to be verified by the large num- ber of tracks we saw in the valley . From this band of Indians we ...
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... Tahk - heesh or " Stick " Indians , who had come with us as packers , had stored away in this vicinity under the willows of the lake's beach , a couple of the most dilapidated looking craft that ever were seen . To call them canoes ...
... Tahk - heesh or " Stick " Indians , who had come with us as packers , had stored away in this vicinity under the willows of the lake's beach , a couple of the most dilapidated looking craft that ever were seen . To call them canoes ...
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... Tahk - heesh Indians who begged for work , and whom we put to use in various ways . I noticed that one of them stammered considerably , the first Indian I ever met with an impedi- ment in his speech . Among my Chilkat packers I also ...
... Tahk - heesh Indians who begged for work , and whom we put to use in various ways . I noticed that one of them stammered considerably , the first Indian I ever met with an impedi- ment in his speech . Among my Chilkat packers I also ...
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Alaska Aleutian Aleutian Islands Aleuts Alexander Archipelago animals Anvik Arctic AYAN bank beach Behring boat bowlders called camp canoe cañon channel Chilkat Chilkat Inlet Chilkoot coast Company craft Dayay distance drifted Eskimo expedition exploration feet fish floating Fort Yukon furs gale glacier half head hills Hudson Bay Company hundred hunting inland passage Inlet islands journey Kadiak Lake Bennett Lake Lindeman Lake Marsh land latter logs looking lower ramparts Michael's miles moose mosquitoes mountain mountain goat mouth natives navigation nearly Nuklakayet Nulato o'clock old Fort Selkirk old Fort Yukon party passed poles raft rapids reached rocks Russian sail salmon savage seemed shore side Sitka skins snow spruce steamer Strait stream stretch swift current Tahk-heesh Tanana timber tion trading trail trees tribe upper valley vessel wind yards Yukon River
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Stran 392 - ... 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 391 - 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 ; 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 lllst Degree of West Longitude (of the same Meridian) ,...
Stran 391 - 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 391 - ... 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. " With reference to the line of demarcation laid down in the preceding article it is understood : " 1st. That the island called Prince of Wales Island shall belong wholly to Russia (now by this cession to the United States).
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 - Alaska, the large amount of freight for which had necessitated this extra steamer. That night we crossed the Columbia River bar and next morning entered the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the southern entrance from the Pacific Ocean which leads to the inland passage to Alaska. * The largest river on the North American continent so far as this mighty stream flows within our boundaries. . . . The people of the United States will not be quick to take to the idea that the volume of water in an Alaskan river...
Stran 388 - 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 386 - Ob the surface and receive its death wound. The body of the animal is then taken into one of the bidarkaa and the hunt continues if the weather is favorable. On the return of the party each animal killed is inspected by the chief in the presence of all the hunters and its ownership ascertained by the spear-head that caused the mortal wound, each weapon being duly marked. The man who first struck the otter receives from two tp ten dollars from the owner.
Stran 375 - Alaska but one small saw-mill is known to exist, which is on Wood Island, St. Paul Harbor, Kadiak. This mill was first set up to supply saw-dust for packing ice, but since the collapse of that industry its operations have been spasmodic and not worth mentioning. Lumber from Puget Sound and British Columbian mills is shipped to nearly all ports in western Alaska for the use of whites and half-breeds, while the natives in their more remote settlements obtain planks and boards by the very laborious...
Stran 379 - 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. A few...