Esplorare la grande YukonAn avventurosa spedizione verso il basso il grande fiume di Yukon, dalla sua fonte britannica in nord-ovest il territorio a sua bocca nel territorio di Alaska . Lo ha chiamato Punta Oeste de laEntrada del Principe; tutti i suoi caratteri geografici-istics e relazioni essendo assunto su di esso per un nome. Presto la mattina successiva siamo stati nel porto di Sitka, orNew arcangelo, come i russi chiamato quando essi hadit per il loro capitale di questa provincia. Il forte, boldbluffs dei passaggi interni ora dare modo di gentlerelevations lungo il litorale pacifico, ma il countrygradually sorge fro

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Exploring the great YukonAn adventurous expedition down the great Yukon River, from its source in the British North-west Territory, to its mouth in the territory of Alaska . called it Punta Oeste de laEntrada del Principe; all its geographical character-istics and relations being shouldered on it for a name. Early next morning we were in the harbor of Sitka, orNew Archangel, as the Russians called it when they hadit for their capital of this province. The strong, boldbluffs of the interior passages now give way to gentlerelevations along the Pacific seaboard, but the countrygradually rises from the coast until but a few miles backthe same old cloud-capped, snow-covered peaks recur, and as we stand well out to sea they look as abrupt asever. Sitka is a picturesque place when viewed from anypoint except from within the town limits. From thesouth-west, looking north-east. Mount Edgecumbe (ofCook) affords a beautiful background against the west-ern sky, and when that is full of low white clouds theabrupt manner in which the point of the mountain is cutoff gives it the appearance of being buried in the clouds, thus seeming several times higher than it really is.. THE INLAND PASSAGE TO ALASKA. ^i The harbor of Sitka is so full of small islands thatlooking at it from a height it seems as if it could only bemapped with a pepper-box, and one wonders how anyvessel can get to her wharf. Once alongside, the waterseems as clear as the atmosphere above, and the smallestobjects can be easily identified at the bottom, thoughthere must have been fully thirty or forty feet of waterwhere we made our observations. On one of the large islands in Sitka harbor, called•Japanese Island, an old Niphon Junk was cast, early inthe present century, and her small crew of Japanesewere rescued by the Russians. Sitka has been so ofteniescribed that it is unnecessary to do more than referthe reader to other accounts of the place. Ten oclock in the forenoon of the 31st saw us underw^ay steaming northw

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• bookauthorschwatka
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• bookdecade1890
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