Alaska, its waters, land and life; an illustrated lecture . BiiilJinu ail Oomeak. THE GREAT YUKON, FROM THE PORCUPINE TO THE DELTA. As we floated down the Yukon wepassed numerous villages whose namesappear upon the maps in formidable lengthand intricacy. When we neared them,iiowever,we found them to be far inferior incharacter to what the names might, to theunknowing, have suggested. We, whowere struck with the Muscovite gutturalofAndreafsky, Nowikakat, Razboin-itskaya or Kinegnagmiut, and whohad our fancies turned to behold spiresand burnished domes like we had seen atMoscow, felt a sense aki
Alaska, its waters, land and life; an illustrated lecture . BiiilJinu ail Oomeak. THE GREAT YUKON, FROM THE PORCUPINE TO THE DELTA. As we floated down the Yukon wepassed numerous villages whose namesappear upon the maps in formidable lengthand intricacy. When we neared them,iiowever,we found them to be far inferior incharacter to what the names might, to theunknowing, have suggested. We, whowere struck with the Muscovite gutturalofAndreafsky, Nowikakat, Razboin-itskaya or Kinegnagmiut, and whohad our fancies turned to behold spiresand burnished domes like we had seen atMoscow, felt a sense akin to shock when there hove in sight upon the rivers bank a settlement to which such a name was Nowikakat. No habitation could be more primitive than this we here mere collection of sticks taken from the rivers driftwood, were piled together to servesome rude form of shelter. Such houses are, however, the abodes of summer. In winter. -An tskii
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