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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... hands came to know us , the pilots touched their hats to us , the agents fled from their ticket - offices at sight of us , and I think even the custom - house officers must have watched suspiciously , when the same two women and one ...
... hands came to know us , the pilots touched their hats to us , the agents fled from their ticket - offices at sight of us , and I think even the custom - house officers must have watched suspiciously , when the same two women and one ...
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... hand the masses and outlines show in their pure contour without the obtrusion of all the garish details that rob so many western moun- tain scenes of their grander effects . The calm of the brooding air , the shimmer of the opaline sea ...
... hand the masses and outlines show in their pure contour without the obtrusion of all the garish details that rob so many western moun- tain scenes of their grander effects . The calm of the brooding air , the shimmer of the opaline sea ...
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... hand per- formance with a sharp knife , which in six minutes leaves twenty salmon shorn of their heads , tails , fins , and inwards . Experienced visitors to such places took out their watches and timed him , and in ten seconds a fish ...
... hand per- formance with a sharp knife , which in six minutes leaves twenty salmon shorn of their heads , tails , fins , and inwards . Experienced visitors to such places took out their watches and timed him , and in ten seconds a fish ...
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... hand . The Indians viewed this deed with horror , and demanded that Skowl should take his life in punishment . As it was proved an accident , Skowl defended his son - in - law from the charge of murder , and declared that he should go ...
... hand . The Indians viewed this deed with horror , and demanded that Skowl should take his life in punishment . As it was proved an accident , Skowl defended his son - in - law from the charge of murder , and declared that he should go ...
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... hands of another officer . The shot- gun has the stock and barrels richly damascened with silver and gold , after the ... hand , and his exploits , adventures , and oddities are now nearly forgotten . The widow Baronovich still lives at ...
... hands of another officer . The shot- gun has the stock and barrels richly damascened with silver and gold , after the ... hand , and his exploits , adventures , and oddities are now nearly forgotten . The widow Baronovich still lives at ...
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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...