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INDEX 



Puffins, horned 227, 228, 233, 332 



Tufted 212, 227, 228 

 Puget Sound trees 246, 248, 254, 272 

 Pullen, Robert, boat journey 199 

 Purington, C. W., photographs of 



Bogoslof 317, 318, 324 

 Pyrola 250 

 Pyrus rivularis 249 



Quartz, gold-bearing 29 



mines 275-276 

 Queen Charlotte Sound 22 



Radcliffe Glacier 69, 127 



Rainfall 242, 268-270 



Rampart House 241 



Ravens in southeastern Alaska 24, 26, 



51,206-207 

 at Kadiak 85, 223 

 at Unalaska 226 

 Red Fir or Douglas Spruce (Pseudo- 



tsuga taxifolia] 246 

 Redoubt Volcano 76 

 Redpoll 223, 226 

 Rendu Glacier 128 

 Revenue-Marine 204, 307 

 Rhododendron, dwarf 83 

 Ribes 249, 250 

 Ridgway, Robert xxxiv, xxxvi, 18, 40* 



93, 216-218 



Ringgold and Rodgers exploring ex- 

 pedition 200 



Ritter, W. E. xxxiv, xxxvi, 18, 63 

 Rivers, underground 12 

 Robin, Oregon or Varied 40, 51, 83-85, 



223 



Western 40, 219 

 Roses in bloom 114 

 Rubus 249 



Russell Fiord 56, 58, 59, 60, 261 

 Russia and Great Britain, convention 



198 



United States, convention 196 

 cession 257 

 transfer of Alaska to United States 



203 

 Russian-American Company 185-195, 



198, 203, 291 

 boundaries established 198 



Russian expeditions 192, 194-195 

 maps 201 

 missionaries 192 

 settlements in 1820 196 



Sabine Gull 234 



Sagebrush 4, 7-9, 13 



St. Elias Alps or Range 54, 63, 115 



121, 126, 132, 244, 26O, 26l 



St. Elias, Mount 54, 115, 235 

 St. George Island 264, 361 



blue fox 361-362 



St. Lawrence Island 107-108, 186 

 St. Matthew Island 99, 108-113, 264- 

 265 



birds 113, 234 



new fox 113 

 St. Michael 201, 270 

 St. Paul Island 96-98, 264 



birds 97-98, 227, 264 



foxes 358 



fur-seals 96-97 



Salix alaxensis and sitchensis 249 

 Salmon, article by Grinnell 337-355 



on Afognak Island 349-350 



barricades 139, 347-348 



bellies, salting 350-351 



berries 115, 116, 118, 218 



canneries 23, 65, 74-75, 79, 156, 



340-355 

 decrease from over-fishing 339, 



343-344 

 fishing by natives 138-139, 348 



industry 337-355 



hatcheries 349, 354 



laws 346, 351-352 



method of canning 74-75, 340-343 



output and value 355 



salteries 350-351 



seining 340, 344 



source of world's supply 337 



spawning ground 338, 348 



traps 348-349 



trolling 339 



Sambucus pubcns 249, 250 

 Sandpiper, Pribilof 234 

 Sand Point 87, 225 

 Saunders, DeAlton xxxiv, 18 

 Savanna Sparrow 106 



