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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... - Arrival at Nulato 159 CHAPTER XVI . LIFE AT NULATO - YUKON RIVER . First explorers of the Yukon - Nulato- Our quarters Water sledge Fish traps - Winter sketching - Frozen provisions Coldest day - Departure of a sledge train - Dinner.
... - Arrival at Nulato 159 CHAPTER XVI . LIFE AT NULATO - YUKON RIVER . First explorers of the Yukon - Nulato- Our quarters Water sledge Fish traps - Winter sketching - Frozen provisions Coldest day - Departure of a sledge train - Dinner.
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... winter trip of our -Temperatures ― Supplies - explorers .. CHAPTER XVII . Page 169 THE CO - YUKON INDIANS . - Co - Yukon tribe Fashions- The Nulato massacre Incidents of the attack - Indian murders - Mourning observances " Wake " - Four ...
... winter trip of our -Temperatures ― Supplies - explorers .. CHAPTER XVII . Page 169 THE CO - YUKON INDIANS . - Co - Yukon tribe Fashions- The Nulato massacre Incidents of the attack - Indian murders - Mourning observances " Wake " - Four ...
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... winter . The snow had just disappeared from the low lands , leaving them in places very swampy . The island was thick with peat - moss , which affords the inhabitants their only fuel , no timber except a very limited amount of drift ...
... winter . The snow had just disappeared from the low lands , leaving them in places very swampy . The island was thick with peat - moss , which affords the inhabitants their only fuel , no timber except a very limited amount of drift ...
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... winter it may possibly be the better route , but it is of a difficult and tortuous nature . " On the 8th August we reached the intricate and rock - girt shores of Sitka Sound , and soon came to an anchor imme- 717 " SITKA OR NEW ...
... winter it may possibly be the better route , but it is of a difficult and tortuous nature . " On the 8th August we reached the intricate and rock - girt shores of Sitka Sound , and soon came to an anchor imme- 717 " SITKA OR NEW ...
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... winter is by no means severe the thermometer rarely standing below 20 ° Fahr . A vast deal of nonsense has been published and republished in the newspapers of the United States relative to the agri- cultural resources of their new ...
... winter is by no means severe the thermometer rarely standing below 20 ° Fahr . A vast deal of nonsense has been published and republished in the newspapers of the United States relative to the agri- cultural resources of their new ...
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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.