Travel and Adventure in the Territory of Alaska: Formerly Russian America--now Ceded to the United States--and in Various Other Parts of the North PacificJ. Murray, 1868 - 331 Seiten |
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... mouths of the Yukon Smith's observations Pastolik - St. Michael's - Progress of the telegraph - Frozen soil -- Scurvy Arrival of our barque Plover Bay ___ ― - Return to San Francisco 231 CHAPTER XXII . THE VALUE OF ALASKA . -THE ORIGIN ...
... mouths of the Yukon Smith's observations Pastolik - St. Michael's - Progress of the telegraph - Frozen soil -- Scurvy Arrival of our barque Plover Bay ___ ― - Return to San Francisco 231 CHAPTER XXII . THE VALUE OF ALASKA . -THE ORIGIN ...
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... Mouth of the Amoor - Travel to Ochotsk - Reindeer riding - The Tunguse Ayan Ochotsk MacCrea and Arnold's wanderings among the Tchuktchis- Anadyrsk ―― Page 257 CHAPTER XXIV . CALIFORNIA . -- California in 1849 - To - day - Agricultural ...
... Mouth of the Amoor - Travel to Ochotsk - Reindeer riding - The Tunguse Ayan Ochotsk MacCrea and Arnold's wanderings among the Tchuktchis- Anadyrsk ―― Page 257 CHAPTER XXIV . CALIFORNIA . -- California in 1849 - To - day - Agricultural ...
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... mouth of the Straits , where hee entred , hee thought he had now well discharged his office , and done the thing which he was sent to doe ; and that hee not being armed to resist the force of the Saluage people that might happen , hee ...
... mouth of the Straits , where hee entred , hee thought he had now well discharged his office , and done the thing which he was sent to doe ; and that hee not being armed to resist the force of the Saluage people that might happen , hee ...
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... mouth of the Homathco River the same day . On entering the inlet , the transition from the low rocky islands of the Gulf of Georgia to the precipitous snow - capped mountains of the mainland was very marked . The skipper , who knew the ...
... mouth of the Homathco River the same day . On entering the inlet , the transition from the low rocky islands of the Gulf of Georgia to the precipitous snow - capped mountains of the mainland was very marked . The skipper , who knew the ...
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... Mouth of Quesnelle . He had subsisted for twelve days on fern and " gamass , " or lily roots , and a few berries . To return to our narrative : -we found that rotten snow covered the ground , logs , and underbrush , to a depth of ...
... Mouth of Quesnelle . He had subsisted for twelve days on fern and " gamass , " or lily roots , and a few berries . To return to our narrative : -we found that rotten snow covered the ground , logs , and underbrush , to a depth of ...
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Alaska American Anadyr Anadyr River arrived Avatcha bank Barclay Sound Bering Straits blankets British Columbia Bute Inlet California camp canoe Captain Cariboo CHAP Chilicotens Co-Yukon coal coast Colonel Bulkley Company Cowichan Cowichan River deer distance dogs dollars early Edition expedition explorers Fcap feet fire forest Fort Yukon friends furs glacier harbour Hudson's Bay Hudson's Bay Company Indians journey Kamchatka Lake land logs Malemute Michael's miles morning mountains mouth natives Norton Sound Nulato Ochotsk Pacific paddles party passed Petropaulovski Plover Bay Port Port Clarence Portrait Post 8vo raft reached reindeer river rocks round route Russian America salmon San Francisco settlement shot Sitka skin sledges snow shoes steamer stream Tchuktchi Telegraph town trade travelling tribes trip Ulukuk Unalachleet Vancouver Island vessels Victoria village Vols voyage whaling whilst winter Woodcuts woods Yukon Yukon River
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Seite 5 - It is in this very latitude where we now were, that geographers have placed the pretended strait of Juan de Fuca. But we saw nothing like it; nor is there the least probability that ever any such thing existed.
Seite 3 - Life and Times of Titian, with some Account of hig Family, chiefly from new and unpublished records. With Portrait and Illustrations. 2 vols. Svo. 42s. GUMMING (R. GORDON). Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa.
Seite 25 - History of Rome. From the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire. With the History of Literature and Art.
Seite 1 - And very often have we heard How men are killed and undone, By overturns of carriages, By thieves and fires in London. We know what risks all landsmen run, From noblemen to tailors; Then, Bill, let us thank Providence That you and I are sailors !
Seite 2 - THE PHILOSOPHY OF Music ; being the substance of a Course of Lectures delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in February and March 1877. By William Pole, FRS, FRSE, Mus.
Seite 278 - Perhaps in no other American city would the ladies invoice so high per head as in San Francisco, when they go out to the opera, or to party, or ball. Their point lace is deeper, their moire antique stiffer, their skirts a trifle longer, their corsage an inch lower, their diamonds more brilliant, — and more of them, — than the cosmopolite is likely to find elsewhere.
Seite 324 - ... overlies the blue sandstone, which, in its turn, I think, covers the blue slates. The coal seam is very limited, being on the extreme point of a bluff, and the greater part of it has been denuded. The fossils are very poor, vegetable, and resemble fuci. The coal is of good quality, bituminous, noncaking, and leaves a gray ash. The seam is sixteen inches wide.
Seite 6 - A NOTE MADE BY ME MICHAEL LOK the elder, touching the Strait of Sea, commonly called Fretum Anian, in the South Sea, through the Northwest passage of Meta incognita.
Seite 19 - An Investigation of the Principles of Athenian Architecture; or, the Results of a Recent Survey conducted chiefly with reference to the Optical Refinements exhibited in the construction of the Ancient Buildings at Athens.