THROUGH WONDERLAND. 
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ranges that closely enclose this well-protected canal, and render it picturesque 
in the extreme. Here is the Eagle Glacier on the right, and dozens that have 
never been named, and a most massive one (Davison’s) on our left, just as we 
enter Chilkat Inlet. At the head of Chilkat Inlet is Pyramid Harbor, so 
named after an island of pyramidal profile in its waters. It marks the highest 
point you will probably reach in the inland passage, unless Chilkoot Inlet is 
entered, which is occasionally done. 
We are now in the land of the Chilkats, one of the most aggressive and 
arrogant, yet withal industrious and wealthy, Indian tribes of the T’linkits. It 
CHILKAT BLANKET. 
should be remembered that all the Alaskan Indians of the inland passage 
(except the Hy-dahs of Dixon Entrance) are bound together by a common lan¬ 
guage, called the T’linkit ; but having so little else in sympathy that the sub¬ 
tribes often war against each other, these sub-tribes having separate chiefs, 
medicine men and countries, in fact, and being known by different names. We 
have already spoken of the Stickeens, Kootznahoos, Sitkas, etc.; and by these 
names they are known among the whites of this portion of the Territory, the title 
T’linkit being seldom heard. At the salmon cannery, on the west shore, a small 
