Alaska: Its Southern Coast and the Sitkan ArchipelagoD. Lothrop, 1885 - 333 páginas 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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... especial credit is due . To the officers of the ship and agents of the company I have to express appreciation of the favors . and courtesies extended by them to my friends and to myself . Each summer I bought my long iv PREFACE .
... especial credit is due . To the officers of the ship and agents of the company I have to express appreciation of the favors . and courtesies extended by them to my friends and to myself . Each summer I bought my long iv PREFACE .
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... ship runs into the famous inlets on the mainland shore and anchors before vast glaciers that push their icy fronts down into the sea . The still waters of the inside passage give smooth sailing nearly all of the way ; and , living on an ...
... ship runs into the famous inlets on the mainland shore and anchors before vast glaciers that push their icy fronts down into the sea . The still waters of the inside passage give smooth sailing nearly all of the way ; and , living on an ...
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... ship Idaho was , had gone to , or was going to . For two restless and uncertain days we see - sawed from British to American soil , going back and forth from Victoria to Port Townsend as we were in turn as- sured that the ship lay at ...
... ship Idaho was , had gone to , or was going to . For two restless and uncertain days we see - sawed from British to American soil , going back and forth from Victoria to Port Townsend as we were in turn as- sured that the ship lay at ...
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... ship , one sunny morning , when the whole Olympic range stood like a sapphire wall across the Straits , and the Angels ' Gate gave a clear view of more azure slopes and snow - tipped summits through that gap in the mountain front ...
... ship , one sunny morning , when the whole Olympic range stood like a sapphire wall across the Straits , and the Angels ' Gate gave a clear view of more azure slopes and snow - tipped summits through that gap in the mountain front ...
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... ship's stores . The captain often affects dismay at the way the provisions disappear , and threatens to take an account of stores at Sitka and bring the ship down by the outside passage in order to save some profit for the company ...
... ship's stores . The captain often affects dismay at the way the provisions disappear , and threatens to take an account of stores at Sitka and bring the ship down by the outside passage in order to save some profit for the company ...
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Alaska Alaska Commercial Company anchor archipelago Baranoff beach beautiful blankets boats bracelets British Columbia cannery canoes Captain carved cedar channel Chatham Strait chief Chilkat Chilkat River Chilkoot Inlet civil coal coast command cruise curios Davidson glacier deck district dollars feet fish fishery forest Fort Wrangell front fur company gold governor ground Haidas harbor head Hooniah houses Howkan Hudson Bay Hudson Bay Company hundred Idaho Indians inlet Juneau Kaigahnee Kasa-an Kloh-Kutz Kootznahoo land Lynn Canal Metlakatlah miles miners mines morning mountain MUIR GLACIER natives numbers officers Pacific picturesque rancherie River Russian salmon San Francisco sealskins sent Seward ship ship's shore side silver Sitka Siwash skins spoons steamer Stikine Stikine River story Straits summer Taku Territory Thlinkets thousand tide tion totem poles town trade treaty tribes trip Tyee United village wharf Wrangell Yukon
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Página 319 - 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.
Página 320 - 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.
Página 317 - ... 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.
Página 317 - ... 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...
Página 317 - IV. With reference to the line of demarcation laid down in the preceding article, it is understood — " 1st. That the island called Prince of Wales Island shall belong wholly to Russia," (now, by this cession to the United States.)
Página 326 - 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.
Página 319 - His Majesty, the Emperor of all the Russias shall appoint, with convenient despatch, an agent or agents for the purpose of formally delivering to a similar agent or agents, appointed on behalf of the United States, the territory, dominion, property, dependencies, and appurtenances which are ceded as above, and for doing any other act which may be necessary in regard thereto. But the cession, with the right of immediate possession, is nevertheless to be deemed complete and absolute on the exchange...
Página 327 - That the general laws of the State of Oregon now in force are hereby declared to be the law in said district, so far as the same may be applicable and not in conflict with the provisions of this act or the laws of the United States...
Página 329 - That the Indians or other persons in said district shall not be disturbed in the possession of any lands actually in their use or occupation or now claimed by them...
Página 317 - The western limit within which the territories and dominion conveyed are contained passes through a point in Behring's Straits on the parallel of sixty-five degrees thirty minutes north latitude, at its intersection by the meridian which passes midway between the islands of Krusenstern or Ignalook, and the island of RatmanofT, or Noonarbook, and proceeds due north without limitation, into the same Frozen Ocean.