. Shores and Alps of Alaska . edes forKaiak are on board, and will just have time to getthere by canoe before the Copper River freezes. On Board the Schooner Kodiak, Chenega,Prince William Sound, October 20th, 18S6. The schooner had been delayed daring the * 3 • ^nali: Knights Island, from Five Miles North of Chenega, looking East, j summer partly by calms, and partly on account ofan opposition company which has been started atKodiak. Hence also our visit to Chenega, thewestern of the three Indian villages in PrinceWilliam Sound, in order to land a Creole trader tobuy up all the sea-lion skins
. Shores and Alps of Alaska . edes forKaiak are on board, and will just have time to getthere by canoe before the Copper River freezes. On Board the Schooner Kodiak, Chenega,Prince William Sound, October 20th, 18S6. The schooner had been delayed daring the * 3 • ^nali: Knights Island, from Five Miles North of Chenega, looking East, j summer partly by calms, and partly on account ofan opposition company which has been started atKodiak. Hence also our visit to Chenega, thewestern of the three Indian villages in PrinceWilliam Sound, in order to land a Creole trader tobuy up all the sea-lion skins he can get, lest thecompeting party should obtain them. The village itself lies under a steep wooded bluff. 228 SHORES AND ALPS OF ALASKA. We should never have found it had not a guidebeen brought from Nuchuk. This part of PrinceWilliam Sound consists of many steep mountainousislands—far more than are marked in the Kussianchart, which is the only one in existence and whichdelineates groups of islands as one island. Their. Part of the Kenai Peninsula from Chenega. southern sides are wooded and timbered, thenorthern sides being bare everywhere. Snow lieson the mountains down to the waters edsre. In CD front of Chenega stretches a broad bay covered withsmall icebergs, and in which several whales are at thismoment sjDouting. Close at hand several glaciersdescend into the sea from the low flat snowfields CHENEGA. 229 visible on the high plateau of the mysterious KenaiPeninsula. I recognise many of the Chenega Indians ashaving lately been over at Nuchuk trading. Our guide will return in a skin canoe acrossthe sound. We are just off for Kodiak, and thencefor California, leaving winter behind us. St. Paul, Kodiak Island, Alaska,October 23d, 1886. We have just reached this place after a severe passage. After getting clear of the islands we coasted alono; the south side of the Kenai Penin- sula, obtaining glimpses through the clouds of several of the glaciers, which reach the ocean
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