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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... tribe , it is easy to see that any one may in this indirect way become the sov- ereign of the savages , and with the help of luck alone , may acquire royal honors . One rich Indian woman of Sitka who took a fancy to a slave , purchased ...
... tribe , it is easy to see that any one may in this indirect way become the sov- ereign of the savages , and with the help of luck alone , may acquire royal honors . One rich Indian woman of Sitka who took a fancy to a slave , purchased ...
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... tribal accounts , all of which conjectures may be well founded . They are simply logs of wood standing on end in front of the houses , and facing the water . This face is covered from top to bottom , for a height of from five 42 ALONG ...
... tribal accounts , all of which conjectures may be well founded . They are simply logs of wood standing on end in front of the houses , and facing the water . This face is covered from top to bottom , for a height of from five 42 ALONG ...
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... tribal symbol , which may be a wolf , a bear , a raven , or a fish , often predominates , while representations of crouching human figures are favorite designs . The making of totem poles has ceased among the Indians , although they ...
... tribal symbol , which may be a wolf , a bear , a raven , or a fish , often predominates , while representations of crouching human figures are favorite designs . The making of totem poles has ceased among the Indians , although they ...
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... tribes of Tlinkits , although even the Chilkats can not be called a race of large men . While they may not com- pare with the Sioux or Cheyennes , or a few others that might be mentioned , yet there are scores of Indian tribes in the ...
... tribes of Tlinkits , although even the Chilkats can not be called a race of large men . While they may not com- pare with the Sioux or Cheyennes , or a few others that might be mentioned , yet there are scores of Indian tribes in the ...
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... tribe whose home is over the Alaskan coast range of mountains and along the head - waters of the great Yukon , the ... tribes of the interior for many hundreds of miles around . These furs were again lashed in packs OVER THE MOUNTAIN ...
... tribe whose home is over the Alaskan coast range of mountains and along the head - waters of the great Yukon , the ... tribes of the interior for many hundreds of miles around . These furs were again lashed in packs OVER THE MOUNTAIN ...
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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...