  CHAPTER I. THE START PORT TOWNSEND VICTORIA NANAIMO. CHAPTER II. THE BRITISH COLUMBIA COAST AND TONGASS. CHAPTER III. CAPE FOX AND NAHA BAY. CHAPTER V. FORT WRANGELL AND THE STIKINE. CHAPTER VI. WRANGELL NARROWS AND TAKU GLACIERS. CHAPTER VII. JUNEAU, SILVER BOW BASIN, AND DOUGLASS ISLAND MINES. CHAPTER VIII. THE CHILKAT COUNTRY. CHAPTER IX. BARTLETT BAY AND THE HOONIAHS. CHAPTER X. MUIR GLACIER AND IDAHO INLET. CHAPTER XI. SITKA THE CASTLE AND THE GREEK CHURCH. CHAPTER XII. SITKA THE INDIAN RANCHERIE. CHAPTER XIII. SITKA SUBURBS AND CLIMATE. CHAPTER XIV. SITKA AN HISTORICAL SKETCH. CHAPTER XV. SITKA. HISTORY SUCCEEDING THE TRANSFER. CHAPTER XVI. EDUCATION IN ALASKA. CHAPTER XVII. PERIL STRAITS AND KOOTZNAHOO. CHAPTER XVIII. KILLISNOO AND THE LAND OF KAKES. CHAPTER XIX. THE PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND. CHAPTER XX. HOWKAN OR KAIGAHNEE. CHAPTER XXI. THE METLAKATLAH MISSION. CHAPTER XXIV. THE TREATY AND CONGRESSIONAL PAPERS. Title: Alaska Its Southern Coast and the Sitkan Archipelago Author: Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 E-text prepared by KD Weeks, Donald Cummings, Bryan Ness, |
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| AMERICAN PEOPLE. | By Arthur Gilman, M. A. |
| INDIA. | By Fannie Roper Feudge. |
| EGYPT. | By Mrs. Clara Erskine Clement. |
| CHINA. | By Robert K. Douglas. |
| SPAIN. | By Prof. James Herbert Harrison. |
| SWITZERLAND. | By Miss Harriet D. S. MacKenzie. |
| JAPAN, and its Leading Men. | By Charles Lanman. |
| ALASKA: The Sitkan Archipelago. | By Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore. |
U.S. Coast & Geodetic Survey
Map of Alaska.
Compiled by W. H. Dall
1884.
[Larger view]
ALASKA
ITS SOUTHERN COAST
AND
THE SITKAN ARCHIPELAGO
“Berlin, Sept. 5.—We have seen of Germany enough to show that its climate is neither so genial, nor its soil so fertile, nor its resources of forests and mines so rich as those of Southern Alaska.”—William H. Seward—Travels Around the World, Part VI. chap. v. page 708.