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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... nearly all of the way ; and , living on an ocean steamer for three and four weeks , one only feels the heaving of the Pacific swells while crossing the short stretches of Queen Charlotte Sound and Dixon En- trance . / The Alaska steamer ...
... nearly all of the way ; and , living on an ocean steamer for three and four weeks , one only feels the heaving of the Pacific swells while crossing the short stretches of Queen Charlotte Sound and Dixon En- trance . / The Alaska steamer ...
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... nearly went to war . San Juan Island , with its limekilns , its gardens , meadows , and browsing sheep , was as pretty and pastoral a spot as nations ever wrangled about , and the Emperor of Germany did just the right thing when he drew ...
... nearly went to war . San Juan Island , with its limekilns , its gardens , meadows , and browsing sheep , was as pretty and pastoral a spot as nations ever wrangled about , and the Emperor of Germany did just the right thing when he drew ...
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... nearly perpendicularly for 1,500 feet , and their snow- crowned summits reach 3,000 feet above their perfect reflections . From a width of two miles at the en- trance , the pass narrows one half , and then by a turn around an island the ...
... nearly perpendicularly for 1,500 feet , and their snow- crowned summits reach 3,000 feet above their perfect reflections . From a width of two miles at the en- trance , the pass narrows one half , and then by a turn around an island the ...
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... the air caused the excitable passenger at the stern to nearly capsize the small boat and steer wildly . As the sailors rowed the boat up the narrow bay , where the ship could barely swing round with the tide , 28 SOUTHERN ALASKA .
... the air caused the excitable passenger at the stern to nearly capsize the small boat and steer wildly . As the sailors rowed the boat up the narrow bay , where the ship could barely swing round with the tide , 28 SOUTHERN ALASKA .
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... nearly forgotten . The widow Baronovich still lives at Kasa - an , unwil ling to leave this peaceful sunny nook in the moun tains , but the fishery is now leased to a ship captain , who has taken away the fine old flavor of piracy and ...
... nearly forgotten . The widow Baronovich still lives at Kasa - an , unwil ling to leave this peaceful sunny nook in the moun tains , but the fishery is now leased to a ship captain , who has taken away the fine old flavor of piracy and ...
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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...