. Book of the Royal blue . on which might be made to them. In spite of all this, however, Baranoffdealt out a rude form of justice and theinoffensive natives suffered far less underhis despotic sway than they did at the handsof the unprincipled rascals who wereallowed to overrun and despoil the countryafter it became an American possession,and his care for the morals and educationof his beautiful daughter, whose mother wealth was unsuspected, and the future ofthe great country seemed , having already more square milesof ice and snow than needed for the accom-modation of politica
. Book of the Royal blue . on which might be made to them. In spite of all this, however, Baranoffdealt out a rude form of justice and theinoffensive natives suffered far less underhis despotic sway than they did at the handsof the unprincipled rascals who wereallowed to overrun and despoil the countryafter it became an American possession,and his care for the morals and educationof his beautiful daughter, whose mother wealth was unsuspected, and the future ofthe great country seemed , having already more square milesof ice and snow than needed for the accom-modation of political prisoners, lookedupon the land as a veritable white ele-phant, for which no bona fide offer wouldbe refused. When the United States,therefore, negotiated for its purchase, fewdifficulties were encountered, and in 1867Alaska, including the lisicre, or thirty-milestrip, extending southward along the coastof British Columbia to the Portland Canal,was ceded to the United States for the sumof S7,200,000, the half of which was. THE 15E.\UTIFUL COI,UMBI.\N COAST was an Aleut squaw, showed a tender andhumane side to his character. Here, for twenty years, Baranoff reignedlike a prince, and the strength of characterand magnetic personahty of the man weresuch, neither man nor woman could resisthim, and no glowing tale of Eastern fictionever equaled the reality of those days inpicturesqueness or mysterious romance. Age, dissipation, disease and courtintrigue finally prevailed against him, how-ever, and in 1818 he was recalled toRussia. This recall broke his heart, andhe died on shipboard en route home. After Baranoffs recall and death, theAlaskan fur trade declined, its mineral paid in worn-out gunboats. Leaving outthe question of the gunboats, subsequentdevelopments have demonstrated that itwas a paltry sum, but Mr. Seward, whowas responsible for the purchase, wasseverely criticised for the purchase of agold brick, which has since proven agold mine, for in 1873 gold was discov-ered
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