Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), 1st October 1886, Edition 1 of 1, Page 1192

Demy 8 vo . cloth extra , price 16 s . AN ARCTIC PROVINCE : ALASKA AND THE SEAL ISLANDS . Illustrated by By many HENRY Drawings W . from ELLIOTT JTattire . and JUaps . OUTLINE OF CONTENTS . CHAPTER I . CHAPTER VII . —The Quest of the Otter . Discovery , Occupation , and Transfer . Searching for the Otter—Exposure and Danger in The Legend of Bering's Voyage—The Discovery of Hunting Sea-otters—Altasov and his Band of Cruel Cos . Voy Russian age and America Shipwreck , or Alaska of the , in * Di Jul scoverer y 1741 ' — — The The Return Escape sacks Traders —Feverish —Their S Energy hameful of Excesses the Early —Greed Eussian for Sea Sea- - otter otter of the Surviyors—They tell of the Furs and Ivory of Skins leads the Russians to Explore the entire Alaskan Alaska—The Knsh of Russian Traders—TEeir Hardy Coast / 1760-1780—What is an Otter ?—A Description of it * Ma Exploration inland , 1760 of -80 the , inclusive Aleutian —Fierce Chain , Competition Kadiak :, and of the the dollars Strange —Gloomy Life —? , Its Storm Single -beaten Skin Haunts sometimes of the Otter worth —The 500 Promyshlineks Domination of the finally Russian leads American to the Company Organisation over and all * * Surround Netting' the ' o Otter f the — ' Surf Otter -Shoot — ' Clubbing ing * Them ' —& the c . & Otter c . -I ] A ER II ' ¦ CHAPTER VIII .-The Great Aleutian Chain . ^ CJ ? LTJo . ; t ' ~ FeatUreSOf ru theSltkan «• , Regl x , . ° ' The Aleutian Islands-A Great Volcanic Chainand The Access ^ Vast to Area her Shores of Alaska save — in Difficulty the Small of Compariso Area of the n , in Symmetrical the scenery Beauty of the Aleutian of Shishaldin and Sitkan Cone— Archipelagoes Sharp Contrast - Sitkan the Sitka Region n Archipelago —Beautiful —The and Decaying Extraordinary Town Feature of Wrangel s of Schoo Odd and ls of Rec Hump ess -back Chase Whales —Lovely —The Bay Aleuti ot an Oonalashka Whalers- - and —The Vegetati Wonderful on Omnipresen Glaciers t of in this this Region Land- — locked The Forests Archi- Traveller The Landscape —Flurries a Fascinatin of Snow g in Picture August to -Winds the Ship that -weary Riot pelago—Gloomy Grandeur of the Canons—The Sitkan over t \ i \ s Aleutian Chain—The Massacre of Drooshinnin Climate Pictures — que Stickeen Bay of Gold Sitka Excitement —The Romance of 1862 and and 1875 Terror —The of i and n 1762 One -63 Hundred —The Aleutian and Fifty People of his Siberian the Best Hunters Natives here of Baranov ' s Establishment there in 1800-1805 —& c . & c . Alaska—Fashions and Manners among Them—Women on CHAPTER III . —Aboriginal Life of the Sitkans . the Wood and Water Trails —& c . fee . neas The and White Avarice Kan of and the the Savage Indian —The Trading Futil — e Effort The Shrewd of the - The CHAPTER Fur-seal Mil IX lions . —Wonderfu of the Pribylov l Seal Islands Islands— , Mar-Greek Catholic Church to Influence the Sitkan Indians— vellous Exhibition of Massed Animal-life in a State of T and he the Difference Meat-eating between Savage the Fish of the -eating Plains Indian —The of Haidah Alaska s Rookeries Nature—Story , July of 1786 the — Discovery Previous of Knowledge these Remarkable of Them Legs the Best from Indians Canoe-travel of Al — aska Large —Deep ' Rancheries Chests * and or Hous Bandy es C Unknown haracter Cli Man mate and Sketch Human of the Inhabitants Pribylov — Islands & c . — & c Their . and Rais Built i Dress n g Bees the of '— Haidahs Alaskan Indian — Doctor Si Grea washes t s Gamblers ' — Kill The or Unwritten Cure —Indian '—The Law Hou Toilet se of - Difference CHAPTER _ , „ . „_ between , ,, X __ . a — Hair Amp . -seal hibian .... and Millions .,. a ,,. Fur-seal , - The Woman the Indian a Household Village—Indians Drudge Eat —The Every Debauchery thing- The of Indian Rum Fnr gularly -seal Free the most Progression Intelligent on of Land all — Amphibians Its Power — in Its sin the - among these People CHAPTER & . c . < fcc . TV Their Water— Desperate The Old Battles Males the one F with irst Arrivals Another in for the Position Sprir ? o . - i The rni ^^ Old SiX The The ' i Redoubt 1 " ? Alpine A ar 1 £ ninf , Ple or T Zone ? Russiaa ^ n ure rw » . of nf oC Jail Mount Mr , W * r - ^ ™ The ^ t ' St < * Tread j ? . ; in pth Ehas e 8 well q ^ « Alaska Mine— - - Desperate tQe Followed Breeding Courage by Grounds the ' of Bachelors — the Subsequent Old ' - Males Wonderful Arri —In val difference of Strength the Females of anl th of ; Salmon Canneries—The Great Whaling Ground ' of Fair- Females Nl ^ ara — -Old Notee Males of the fast Rookerieg from May Sounds to August like the , inclusive Roar ; weather—Superb and Lofty Peaks seen at Sea , One Hun- neither Eat nor Drinknor Leave their Stations in all that ? 1741 J !? which a ^ ? separated rty-flve MLles Borin Distant g and — his The Lieutenant Storm h — ere The in Time-Graceful Females , -Frolicsome * Pups '—& c . & u Wra Hundred Grandeur ngel , Twenty of Feet Mount —The Thoupan St Brawlin . Elias d Feet , g Nineteen , the Copper Loftiest Thousand River Peak — on Mount Five the Sea The -lion Alaskan and the Sea Fur CHAPTER -lion -seal — — Marked The Imposing XI Difference . Presence between anl tbe the North Scenery American in Prince Continent William —Frigid Sound , Gloomy —The First Grandeur Vessel of between Sonorous old Voice Sea-lion of the Bulls— 'Sea Cow -king ardly *— in Terrible the Pre Cornish sence ui atructed ever built here by in White 1794 —< Men fcc . & on c . the North-west Coast , Con- M Surf an — , however It has no —Sea Fur -lions on Its Sportin Huge g Hides in the —V Fury aluable of only Ocean to Cook , ? phaptf v > f Great J t ? . Rivex ? : > «« JL The i , » o t Tide ™ « i «« i - . rips nnA , and ;« - « , People d their «~ 1 Power . Ifc turing tne 8 8 Natives weet Sea F 1 lions ; gh who and —How Cover Inodorou the their Natives 8 Fat ' Bidarrah _ The Corral Difficulty ' with them its -Curious of C & F in Cook s Inlet—The impressive Mountains of the Inlet Behaviour of the Animals —& c . & c . — Inlet The , the Glaciers Garden of -spot Turnagain of Alaska Canal —Small —Eenal Sbaggy Shore Si of berian the CHAPTER XII . —Innuit Life and Land , . Cattle—Burning Volcano of Ilyamna—The Kenaitze In- ' Nooshagak ; ' Wide Application of an Innu . it N « ' « J in dians Volcanic —Bears and Districts Bear — Roads Kenaitze —Wild Architecture Animals S 2 — ek Russian Shelter — Lakes The of Post this and District River borderin —Countless g ou Bristo Pools l , Bay PonJa The . " w j ^ - Gold-mining Enterprise on the Kaknoo , 1842-55—& c . & c . kimo Inhabitants of the Const—The Features and Form o ^ rHAPTFR f Z 5 r \/ T ThAnr ? t Is To land iQnj of ^ f Kadiak xr ^ Ai t . dent Alaskan -Tbeir Innuits Dress — Light , Manners -hearted , and , In Rude consta Dwellinfs nt , and I "" - ' . ' Alaakft Kadiak —Bhellikov tbe Geographical , ond ^ bis Remarkable and * Commercial History Centre , 1784— of — Routine Indifferent of Life Lan —Large d Hunters and Varied , bnt Natural Mighty Food Fishermen -suppl " - drawn Kadiak upon , a Large it—The and Depdt Rugged of the Island Mysterious —The Timber San Fran Line - Skilful Carvers in Ivory —& c & c ¦ Wastes _ ,. tf . » . Ya Cisco id— Ice Tough Company Siberia on n Wood Cattle Island —Pretty —Creole Greek Ship Chapel and Boat at The CHAPTER Mississippi XIII of . Alaska —Lonely : the Northern Yukon River , an ' I Yealovnie Kolma—What —Failure a Creole of Our ' is— People The Kaniaga to Raise or N Sheep atives at of Thorough be Entered Exploration by Sen-going - Ita Vessels vast — Deltoid Its Valley Mouth , and —<< its : l 1 ' . I I Kadiak ; their Salient Characteristics—Apathy and In- butaries—Dividing Line between the Eskimo » " '' . , I of difference Natives to in Death Alaska — — Coneumption The Penal Smtion and Scrofula of Ookamok the Scourg the e in Indian thin on Lone its Banks Waste —The of ¦ the Trader Ynkon ' s Steamer - * MiobaelovflKy ; it * ^ , t ! lJ I Botany Settlement Bay — of Kvass Alaska Orgies —Belcovsky —& o . < fec , . the Rich and Profligate , Trading < fcc . & o . Centre for this Extensive Circumpolw ^ n I m London : SAMPSON Crown LOW Buildings , MARSTON , 188 Pleet , Street SEARL , E . O E , & RIVINGTON , Jk

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