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tained by personal examination in boats. The 

 channels, however, which separate them are so 

 narrrow, that the three might easily pass for 

 one. The coast of Sitka Bay is intersected by 

 many deep creeks, and the neighbouring waters 

 thickly sprinkled with little rocky islands over- 

 grown with wood, which are a protection against 

 storms, and present a strong wall of defence 

 against the waves. 



The harbour of New Archangel is equally 

 well defended by nature, and needs no assist- 

 ance from art. 



A bold enterprising man of the name of 

 Baronof, long superintended the Company^s 

 establishments. Peculiarly adapted by nature 

 for the task of contending with a wild people, 

 he seemed to find a pleasure in the occupation. 

 Although the conquest of the Sitkaens, or Ka- 

 lushes, was not so easily achieved as that of the 

 more timid Aleutians and Kodiacks, he finally 

 accomplished it. A warlike, courageous, and 

 cruel race, provided with fire-arms by the ships 

 of the North American United States, in ex- 

 change for otters' skins, maintained an obstinate 

 struggle against the invaders. But Baronof at 



