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 Northwest Territory, and in the Territory of AlaskaJ. Y. Huber Company, 1891 - 418 strani |
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... trees have been swept or leveled in a remarkable manner . Such as were cut vertically had been caused by an avalanche , and in these instances the work of clearing had been done as faithfully as if by the hands of man . Sometimes the ...
... trees have been swept or leveled in a remarkable manner . Such as were cut vertically had been caused by an avalanche , and in these instances the work of clearing had been done as faithfully as if by the hands of man . Sometimes the ...
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... tree , and even north of Quadra Inlet it is found in its densest growth . As around all white habitations in frontier lands , we found the usual number of natives , although in this case they were here for the commendable object of ...
... tree , and even north of Quadra Inlet it is found in its densest growth . As around all white habitations in frontier lands , we found the usual number of natives , although in this case they were here for the commendable object of ...
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... tree , by the usual Indian method of hollowing them out to a thin shell and then boiling water in them by throwing in ... trees in the deep dark passages , these canoes can hardly be seen until very near , and when a flash of the water ...
... tree , by the usual Indian method of hollowing them out to a thin shell and then boiling water in them by throwing in ... trees in the deep dark passages , these canoes can hardly be seen until very near , and when a flash of the water ...
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... tree to save his hamstrings being nipped uncomfortably , and then he is shot out of it , at the hunter's leisure , and if wounded is so small and easily handled by the pack of dogs that he can hardly be called dangerous . Not so ...
... tree to save his hamstrings being nipped uncomfortably , and then he is shot out of it , at the hunter's leisure , and if wounded is so small and easily handled by the pack of dogs that he can hardly be called dangerous . Not so ...
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... trees and underbrush for heights greater than a man's reach , and all of it moist as a sponge , the whole being absolutely tropical in luxuri- ance . This thick carpet of moss extends from the shore line to the edges of the glaciers on ...
... trees and underbrush for heights greater than a man's reach , and all of it moist as a sponge , the whole being absolutely tropical in luxuri- ance . This thick carpet of moss extends from the shore line to the edges of the glaciers on ...
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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 286 - And these had the weather in their favour ; for it is an ill wind that blows no one any good ; and the rain that rains on the just and unjust seems to have a preference for the latter.
Stran 391 - ... 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, shall form the limit between the Russian and British possessions on the continent of America to the north-west.
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 386 - The body of the animal is then taken into one of the bidarkas 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.
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 391 - Island shall belong wholly to Russia. " 2nd. 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...