Kalitan, Our Little Alaskan Cousin

. Strong. They had boarded the mail-steamer late the night before, and, going right to bed, had wakened early next day and rushed on de

tell us lots about the places we pass, and, if there aren't any other boys

glimpse of some of the waterfalls, volcanoes, and glaciers. They are as fi

passage of water, but a great Kenai otter tried to swim the pass, and was caught fast. H

," said Ted, "to push it so

e island as there are on the mainland, but the grasses are s

n has!" exclaimed Ted. "It isn

driftwood. It holds two people. They sit in small hatch with apron all around their bodies, and the bidarka

sea,'" said Mr. Strong. "They skim along like swallow

he small island?" asked Ted, as the

rned to manufacture ice, immense cargoes were shi

," said Ted. "The sailors went out in a boat, slipped a net around a block of ice and

ople want ice for stored up?

interest is Karluk. It's around on the other side of the island in Shelikoff Strait, and is famous for its salmon cannerie

fish. Tyee Klake said salmon used to come up this river in

ld is at Karluk. There are thousands of men employed, and in one year over three million salmon were packed, yet with all this work for busy hands to d

aces do we pas

bury one of his crew. Codfish were found there, and Captain Cook, in his 'Voyages and Discoveries,' speaks of the same fish. There is a famous fishery there now called the Davidson Banks, and the codfishing fleet

SHIS

hose mind was so inquiring that his fathe

were forbidden by law to wear it," said Mr. Strong. "It is a rich, purplis

w, and we find them only in dangerous spots, hiding on rocks or floating kelp. Sometimes the hunters have to lie in hiding

rly nine thousand feet high, and almost as perfect a cone in shape as Fuji Yama, which the Japanese love so much and call 'the Honourable Mountain.' At Unalaska or Ilinlink, the 'curving beach,' we stop. If we could stay over for awhile, there are a great many interesting things we could see; an old Greek church and the government school are in the town, and Bogoslov's volcano and the sea-lion rookeries are on the island of St. John, which rose right up out of the sea in 1796 after a day's roaring and rumbling and thundering. In 1815 there was a simila

d Ted, amused. "These Alaskan

ow in a part of which there is always a cloud of sul

en the Thlinkits grew and prospered, till darkness fell upon the earth. A Thlinkit stole the sun and hid it in a box, but Yehl found it and set it so high in the heavens that none could touch it. Then the Thlinkits grew

en long life by Yehl, stays there always to hold up the earth out of the water. But the other lives in the crater as the Thunder Bird, Hahtl

," said Teddy, who was always quite carr

o we see on the wa

t I do not think we pass near enough to the islands to see any of that. You'd b

all about seals and sealing, although the famous Pribylov Islands were too far to the west of the vessel's route for them to see them. They sighted the United States revenue cutter which plies about the seal islands to keep off poachers, for no one is allowed to kill s

so valuable, fa

ska for a dollar apiece. Hunters killed so many, killing old and young, that soon there were scarcely any left, so a law was passed by the Russian government forbidding any killing for five years. Since the Americans have owned Alaska they have protected the seals, all

where to find the

funny little black puppies, while the mother swims about seeking food. The seals are very timid, and will rush into the water at the least strange noise. A story is told that the barking o

" commented Ted. "But wha

on the seal question," said his father

lways to kill the righ

m and the herd and drive them slowly to the killing-ground, where they are quickly killed and skinned and the skins taken to the salting-hous

the skins after

t they are so expensive. They are first worked in sawdust, cleaned, scraped, washed, shaved, plucked, dyed with a hand-brus

performance. I wish we could have seen the islands, but I'd hate to see the seals killed. It does

know that it's done in the easi

To-morrow we'll be at Nome, and then your head will be so stuffed w

et any of it," said T

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n the raven, is the T