l^raveh in Alaska 



region with a friend from San Francisco, we engaged 

 passage on the little mail steamer California, at Port- 

 land, Oregon, for Alaska. The sail down the broad 

 lower reaches of the Columbia and across its foamy- 

 bar, around Cape Flattery, and up the Juan de Fuca 

 Strait, was delightful; and after calling again at Vic- 

 toria and Port Townsend we got fairly off for icy 

 Alaska. 



