Vi CONTENTS. 



CHAPTEE m. 



ABORIGINAL LIFE OF THE SITKANS pp. 36-66 



The White Man and the Indian Trading. The Shrewdness and Avarice of the 

 Savage. Small Value of the entire Land Fur Trade of Alaska. The 

 Futile Effort of the Greek Catholic Church to Influence the Sitkan In- 

 dians. The Reason why Missionary Work in Alaska has been and is 



Impotent. The Difference between the Fish-eating Indian of Alaska and 



the Meat-eating Savage of the Plains. Simply One of Physique. The 

 Haidahs the Best Indians of Alaska. Deep Chests and Bandy Legs from 

 Canoe-travel. Living in Fixed Settlements because Obliged To. Large 

 "Rancheries" or Houses Built by the Haidahs. Communistic Families. 

 Great Gamblers. Indian "House-Raising Bees." Grotesque Totem 

 Posts. Indian Doctors "Kill or Cure." Dismal Interior of an Indian 

 " Rancherie." The Toilet and Dress of Alaskan Si washes. The Unwrit- 

 ten Law of the Indian Village. What Constitutes a Chief. The Tribal 

 Boundaries and their Scrupulous Regard. Fish the Main Support of 

 Sitkan Indians. The Running of the Salmon. Indians Eat Everything. 

 Their Salads and Sauces. Their Wooden Dishes and Cups, and Spoons 

 of Horn. The Family Chests. The Indian Woman a Household Drudge. 

 She has no Washing to Do, However. Sitkan Indians not Great 

 Hunters. They are Unrivalled Canoe-builders. Small-pox and Measles 

 have Reduced the Indians of the Sitkan Archipelago to a Scanty Number. 

 Abandoned Settlements of these Savages Common. The Debauchery of 

 Rum among these People. The White Man to Blame for This. 



CHAPTER IV. 



THE ALPINE ZONE OF MOUNT ST. ELIAS pp. 07-81 



The Hot Spring Oasis and the Humming-bird near Sitka. The Value and 

 Pleasure of Warm Springs in Alaska. The Old ' ' Redoubt " or Russian 

 Jail. The Tread well Mine. Futility of Predicting what may, or what 

 will not Happen in Mining Discovery. Coal of Alaska not fit for Steam- 

 ing Purposes. Salmon Canneries. The Great "Whaling Ground'' of 

 Fairweather. Superb and Lofty Peaks seen at Sea One Hundred and 

 Thirty-five Miles Distant. Mount Fairweather so named as the Whale- 

 men's Barometer. The Storm here in 1741 which Separated Bering and 

 his Lieutenant. The Grandeur of Mount St. Elias, Nineteen Thousand 

 Five Hundred Feet. A Tempestuous and Forbidding Coast to the Mariner. 

 The Brawling Copper River. Mount Wrangel, Twenty Thousand Feet, 

 the Loftiest Peak on the North American Continent. In the Forks of 

 this Stream. Exaggerated Fables of the Number and Ferocity of the 

 Natives. Frigid, Gloomy Grandeur of the Scenery in Prince William 

 Sound. The First Vessel ever built by White Men on the Northwest 



