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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
THE VOYAGE OUT.
passengers Old Mo'
Storm on board - Mutiny
Freight for the
- Volunteer coal-
Leaving England -- Our
matrimonial market
heaving — Falkland Islands - Port Stanley - The Horn-Out of
coal San Francisco The Straits of Fuca - Cook - Vancouver
-Juan de Fuca - Victoria - - Cariboo mines
The gold The
discoverers of William's Creek - Journalism on the Pacific Page 1
CHAPTER II.
THE GLACIERS OF BUTE INLET, BRITISH COLUMBIA.
The mountains of British Columbia and adjacent coasts Bute Inlet
-Chilicoten Indians-A "blow up". Indian packers · Route
through the forests - Indian guide Chinook jargon - Trackless
forests Lost in the woods The glacier streams Camp - Great
Glacier - Description - Return journey - Second Glacier
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CHAPTER III.
THE TRAGEDY AMONG THE GLACIERS.
Reported murder Canoe trip on the sea
-
Dodd's Narrows
Island on fire-The massacre at Bute Inlet Reports of survivors
-Second massacre Excitement in the Colony - Expeditions in
- Capture of a part of the murderers - The
search of the Indians -
ideal and real Indian - His ultimate extinction - Reasons for it-
Indian traders - Proposed semi-secular, semi-missionary settlements
-The mission at Metlakahtla
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CHAPTER IV.
THE INTERIOR OF VANCOUVER ISLAND.
Pleasures of labour Unknown interior of Vancouver Island
Expedition organized - Cowichan River Somenos Kakalatza
and his hat-box- Travel up the river- Our camps - Camp yarns
-Indian version of the Book of Jonah - Cowichan Lake - Rafting
experiences - The “ Rampant Raft "- Brown's camp - Acquisition
of a canoe
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CHAPTER V.
Nittinaht Inlet 66
The
Whyack The Indians Aht tribes
breakers Port San Juan Indian yarn
Sooke Basin and
River - Discovery of gold Gold on Queen Charlotte's Island
Nanaimo-Coal seam at Comox Ascent of Puntledge River
Wreck of Canoe - Interior lakes - Barclay Sound -Game list
Camp-mark..
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CHAPTER VI.
ALASKA TERRITORY.
Acquisition of Russian America by the United States - American
criticisms on the purchase-Coal and gold discoveries - Mock
advertisements-America for the Americans Geographical litera-
ture of the Pacific Of Russian America - The Treaty W. U.
Telegraph Expedition Its organization · Preference for young
men
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CHAPTER VII.
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A VISIT TO THE CAPITAL OF ALASKA.
The voyage - Sitka Sound and harbour - Baranoff — Early history —
The town-Water supply - Agriculture - Former Russian settle-
ments in California - Russian American Company - The fisheries
- Kalosh Indians - Our experiences of Russian hospitality - Sitka
in new hands - Two Sundays in a week- Kodiack ice- Formal
transfer of Alaska..
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Volcanoes in Ounimak Pass St. Michael's, Norton Sound,
Alaska Soundings of Bering Sea- Plover Bay, Eastern Siberia
The Tchuktchis - Tents Canoes Tchuktchis' strength
Children The irrepressible "Naukum"-Native's idea of the
telegraph - The 'Shenandoah' pirate Avatcha Bay
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CHAPTER IX.
PETROPAULOVSKI AND OUR RETURN VOYAGE TO SAN
The Harbour
FRANCISCO.
Town-Monuments - The fur trade · - Kamchatka
generally The volcanoes- - The attack of the Allies in 1854-
Their return in 1855 - The General Teste' - Rejoin the steamer
'Wright' - Gale - Incidents of storm-Covert's "smoke-stack" 94
CHAPTER X.
VOYAGE IN THE NORTH PACIFIC.
1866.
Organization of the expedition-Thirsty medical man
Our fleet
- Voyage - Petropaulovski again - The Russian corvette Rus-
sian wedding Heat International pic-nic - Voyage north
Bering's voyages Shipwreck Death of Bering-Gulf of Anadyr
The "Wandering Tchuktchis"
Page 105
CHAPTER XI.
THE ANADYR RIVER AND PLOVER BAY, EASTERN SIBERIA.
Tchuktchi with letter of recommendation Boat expedition to
the river Our explorers - Their experiences - The Anadyr
River Tchuktchi thieves Plover Bay Naukum again
Advertising in Bering Straits Telegraph station erected
Foraging with a vengeance — Whaling Norton Sound, Alaska
Death of Major Kennicott
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CHAPTER XII.
RUSSIAN AND INDIAN SETTLEMENTS.--NORTON SOUND.
St. Michael's-The fort and its inhabitants
-The Provalishik'.
Russian steam-bath - "Total immersion"-The island - Incident
of break-up of ice - Arrival of dead Indian sledge-driver - Steam-
boat trip Steamer laid up - Russian post at Unalachleet
Malemute and Kaveak Indians Skin clothing-Intertribal com-
merce
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- Trade with the Tchuktchis- Underground houses - Fish-
ing through the ice
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CHAPTER XIII.
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Feast
UNALACHLEET-NORTON SOUND.
Indian town-hall- Preparations for dance - Smoke-consuming Indians
Dance Chorus - The Malemutes and Kaveaks - The
"Parka-mania"-Erection of quarters - Preparations for
chiefs
sledge journey
CHAPTER XIV.
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SLEDGE JOURNEY TO THE YUKON.
Our party-
Routes to the Yukon-Sledges and dogs - Our start
Unalachleet River - Brought to a standstill-Dogs desert - Inge-
CHAPTER XV.
SLEDGE JOURNEY TO THE YUKON.-Continued.
Cross the Ulukuk River - Walking on snow shoes - Ulukuk Moun-
tains Land travelling - Versola Sofka
Patent camp
Our
frozen breath - Indian honesty - The use of snow shoes - Warm
springs First glimpse of the Yukon
Coltog Old "Stareek"
- Travel on the Yukon - Alikoff's " barabba" Meet a Russian
sledge-train-Arrival at Nulato