To the Klondike Gold Fields : and other points of interest in Alaska . fiomer and Kodiak :. FORTY POST. Then the steamer speeds onward to Kodiak, which is a beauti-ful spot and is a general station of the Kodiak district. This portboasts of two wharves, several warehouses, many frame buildingsand a Russian church. There are no saloons there as it is againstthe law to sell liquors. Kodiak is a coaling station for the steamersand also the general depot of the district for the furs that arebrought in by the Indians for sale. There are but scattered grovesof trees in the neighborhood of Kodi
To the Klondike Gold Fields : and other points of interest in Alaska . fiomer and Kodiak :. FORTY POST. Then the steamer speeds onward to Kodiak, which is a beauti-ful spot and is a general station of the Kodiak district. This portboasts of two wharves, several warehouses, many frame buildingsand a Russian church. There are no saloons there as it is againstthe law to sell liquors. Kodiak is a coaling station for the steamersand also the general depot of the district for the furs that arebrought in by the Indians for sale. There are but scattered grovesof trees in the neighborhood of Kodiak as the dense forests of thenorthwest coast finally cease at the line of the Kenai Peninsula. Theshores beyond that line are covered with grasses, shrubs and thickmosses, that, freshened by perpetual fog and rain, are so brilliantlyand intensely green as to dazzle the eye. It is here that the dug-out 5o THE ALASKA COMMERCIAL COMPANY canoe disappears and boats of sea lion or walrus hide stretched overdriftwood frames replace them. The bidarka, a narrow shell pointedat either end, carri
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