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and a large nuniber of 

 others situated far- 

 ther to the west. 



Shelikof Strait, a 

 turbulent and treach- 

 erous body of water, 

 averaging 35 miles in 

 width, lies south of 

 the eastern end of the 

 Alaska Peninsula and 

 separates it from Ko- 

 diak and Afognak 

 islands, which shared 

 the effects of the 

 eruption with the east- 

 ern end of the Alaska 

 Peninsula. These 

 islands are mountain- 

 ous, but not volcanic. 



THE IXII.MilT.WTS OF 



TIIK ALASK.V Pi:.\- 



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The inhabitants of 

 the Alaska Peninsula 

 include a few hundred 

 people in ten or twelve 

 small native villages, 

 the employes of four 

 or five salmon can- 

 neries, and a handful 

 of traders and pros- 

 pectors. Most of the 

 native villages had a 

 former basis of pros- 

 perity in sea-otter 

 hunting, but with the 

 ])ractical extinction of 

 the sea otter this is 

 gone and the salmon 

 is the chief means of 

 support. 



The inhabitants of 

 Kodiak and .\fognak 

 islands are mostly de- 

 scendantsof Russians. 

 The largest settle- 

 ments are Kodiak (St. 

 Paul) and Afognak. 

 The former is well 

 known as one of the 

 quaintest and most at- 

 tractive towns on the ' 

 .\laskan coast. Its 

 population includes 

 the largest proportion 

 of Americans of anv 



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