. Wonderland; or, Alaska and the inland passage . lled the Chilkat Inlet, and the eastern armthe Chilkoot Inlet, after two tribes of Tlinkit Indians living onthese respective channels. It is a beautiful sheet of water, more Alpine incharacter than any yet entered. Glaciers of blue and emerald ice can be seenalmost everywhere, peeping from underneath the snow-capped mountains and THRO UGH WONDERLAND. 81 ranges that closely enclose this well-protected canal, and render it picturesquein the extreme. Here is the Eagle Glacier on the right, and dozens that havenever been named, and a most massive o
. Wonderland; or, Alaska and the inland passage . lled the Chilkat Inlet, and the eastern armthe Chilkoot Inlet, after two tribes of Tlinkit Indians living onthese respective channels. It is a beautiful sheet of water, more Alpine incharacter than any yet entered. Glaciers of blue and emerald ice can be seenalmost everywhere, peeping from underneath the snow-capped mountains and THRO UGH WONDERLAND. 81 ranges that closely enclose this well-protected canal, and render it picturesquein the extreme. Here is the Eagle Glacier on the right, and dozens that havenever been named, and a most massive one (Davisons) on our left, just as weenter Chilkat Inlet. At the head of Chilkat Inlet is Pyramid Harbor, sonamed after an island of pyramidal profile in its waters. It marks the highestpoint you will probably reach in the inland passage, unless Chilkoot Inlet isentered, which is occasionally done. We are now in the land of the Chilkats, one of the most aggressive andarrogant, yet withal industrious and wealthy, Indian tribes of the Tlinkits. It. CHILKAT BLANKET, should be remembered that all the Alaskan Indians of the inland passage(except the Hy-dahs of Dixon Entrance) are bound together by a common lan-guage, called the Tlinkit ; but having so little else in sympathy that the sub-tribes often war against each other, these sub-tribes having separate chiefs,medicine men and countries, in fact, and being known by different names. Wehave already spoken of the Stickeens, Kootznahoos, Sitkas, etc.; and by thesenames they are known among the whites of this portion of the Territory, the titleTlinkit being seldom heard. At the salmon cannery, on the west shore, a small 82 THROUGH WONDERLAND. but recently built village of Chilkats is clustered ; but, to see them in all theirglory, the Chilkat river should be ascended to their principal village of Kluk-wan. Of this country,—the Chilkat and Chilkoot,—Mrs. Eugene S. Willard, thewife of the missionary presiding at Haines Mission, in C
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