VI CONTENTS. 



CHAPTEE m. 



ABOuiGiNAii Life of the Sitkans pp. 36-06 



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. — Tlie 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 Siwashes. — 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 Riinning of the Salmon. — Indians Eat Everything. 

 — Their Salads and Sauces. — Their Wooden Dishes and Cujis, 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 Zoxe of Mount St. Elias pp. ()7-Sl 



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 

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



