Alaska: Its Southern Coast and the Sitkan ArchipelagoD. Lothrop, 1885 - 333 strani Author's letters to various newspapers on her two summer cruises in 1883-84 assembled and amplified by reference to published information to form an informative tourist guide to the region. |
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... Haida chief who ruled the bay . She is said to have been a very comely maiden when Baro- novich married her , and is now a stately , fine - looking woman , with good features and a creamy complexion . While Baronovich was cleaning his ...
... Haida chief who ruled the bay . She is said to have been a very comely maiden when Baro- novich married her , and is now a stately , fine - looking woman , with good features and a creamy complexion . While Baronovich was cleaning his ...
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... Haidas , the finest of the Indian tribes of the coast . They are most intelligent and industrious people , and are skilled in many ways that render them superior to the other tribes of the island . Their permanent village is some miles ...
... Haidas , the finest of the Indian tribes of the coast . They are most intelligent and industrious people , and are skilled in many ways that render them superior to the other tribes of the island . Their permanent village is some miles ...
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... Haida canoe has the same high , double - beaked prow of the Chinook canoes of Puget Sound , but where the stern of the latter drops in a straight line to the keel , the Haida canoe has a deep convex curve . By universal fashion all of ...
... Haida canoe has the same high , double - beaked prow of the Chinook canoes of Puget Sound , but where the stern of the latter drops in a straight line to the keel , the Haida canoe has a deep convex curve . By universal fashion all of ...
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... Haidas are famous as the best carvers , silversmiths , and workers on the coast ; and there are some of their best artists in this little band on Kasa - an Bay . An old blind man , with a battered hat on his head and a dirty white ...
... Haidas are famous as the best carvers , silversmiths , and workers on the coast ; and there are some of their best artists in this little band on Kasa - an Bay . An old blind man , with a battered hat on his head and a dirty white ...
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... Haida maids and matrons as fiercely as on civilized shores , and dusky wrists were outstretched on which from three to nine bracelets lay in shining lines like jointed mail . Anciently they pounded a single heavy brace- let from a ...
... Haida maids and matrons as fiercely as on civilized shores , and dusky wrists were outstretched on which from three to nine bracelets lay in shining lines like jointed mail . Anciently they pounded a single heavy brace- let from a ...
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Alaska Alaska Commercial Company anchor archipelago Baranoff beach beautiful blankets boats bracelets cannery canoes Captain carved cedar channel Chatham Strait chief Chilkat Chilkat River Chilkoot Inlet civilized coal coast command cruise curios deck district dollars eagle feet fish fishery forest Fort Wrangell front fur company Glacier Bay gold governor ground Haidas head Hooniah Howkan Hudson Bay Hudson Bay Company hundred Idaho Indians inlet Juneau Kaigahnee Kasa-an Kloh-Kutz Kootznahoo land Lynn Canal Metlakatlah miles miners mines mission moraine morning mountain MUIR GLACIER natives numbers officers picturesque quartz rancherie River Russian Russian America salmon San Francisco sealskins sent Seward ship ship's shore side silver Sitka Siwash skins spoons steamer Stikine Stikine River Straits summer Taku Territory Thlinkets thousand tide totem poles town trade treaty tribes trip Tyee United village wharf Wrangell Yukon
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Stran 317 - The uncivilized tribes will be subject to such laws and regulations as the United States may, from time to time, adopt in regard to aboriginal tribes of that country.
Stran 314 - Island, which point lies in the parallel of 54 degrees 40 minutes 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...
Stran 318 - When this convention shall have been duly ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, on the one part, and on the other by his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, the ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington within three months from the date hereof, or sooner, if possible.
Stran 319 - And whereas the said treaty has been duly ratified on both parts, and the respective ratifications of the same were exchanged at Washington on this twentieth day of June, by William H.
Stran 315 - 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, shall be formed by a line parallel to the windings of the coast, and which shall never exceed the distance...
Stran 319 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said Treaty to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
Stran 315 - ... 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...
Stran 324 - And that either of the justices of the Supreme Court, as well as judges of the District Courts, shall have power to grant writs of habeas corpus, for the purpose of an inquiry into the cause of commitment.
Stran 315 - ... 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 313 - By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation. Whereas a treaty between the United States of America and His Majesty the...