The Young Alaskans

indentation of the coast known as Resurrection Bay, and finally concluded her own northbound journey at the docks of the town of Seward, which lies at the head of th

gan to think that they had not dreamed how large it really was, for Uncle Dick advised them th

to Alaska. Hundreds of sea-lions crowded some lofty rocks not far beyond the entrance to the bay, roaring and barking at the ship as she ste

friend, and he was always looking out acros

d, after he had been gazing steadily

state-room and returned w

indeed, I think there is a big school of whales on ah

gs rolling on the water. All at once there appeared splashes of white water among the whales, and the latter seemed to be much a

lers in there!

se now! Don't you see those smaller black things swimming along, with tall,

e sea now going on. Evidently some of the whales were much distressed; one larg

jumped almost out of the wat

a whale, he's so big!" commented

hem will bite a chunk out of a whale, and as quick as he lets go another will take his place. They come pre

e right ahead of us who just came up, and he's acting mighty stupid. See, he

st stopped the ocean vessel. Her steel-shod bow ha

t Captain Zim from his station. "I gue

though its back were broken. Then as the ship passed on it slowly sank from sight, even as the

these waters thirty years, but that's

k. "But if you don't mind, I'd rather you wouldn't run over any more whal

sea studiously with the field-glasses. "See it-right over there ab

Uncle Dick, "it

?" asked Rob. "I'd l

ou won't find any fur seals until you get a good many hundred miles beyond Kadiak. And that's a good many hundred miles yet from here. Let

seen them before, and one of the sailors told me that there is always most of them where th

le Dick, as he turned away. "You may have thought Valdez was pret

cle Dick?" asked John. "It looks to

ll. There are big ships lost, too, up and down this coast. Last year the natives below Kadiak brought in casks and boxes and all kinds of things bearing the name of the steamer Oregon. She was wrecked far to the south of Valdez

s out there?" asked

Kenai Peninsula of Alaska. There's bears over there, but mostly black ones. Plenty of moose and caribou in these mounta

"From what I hear of this Kadiak country, I belie

nswered. "Distances are long up here, and wind and ti