. Book of the Royal blue . TOTEM POLE, FORT WKANGEL, ALASKA North of Parallel Forty-nine A Trip to Alaska via the Inside Passaore By H. F. BALDWIN, in the Southwesterns Book ILTHOUGH nominallyAmerican for more thanforty years, our mostnortherly possession (ex-cepting the North Pole,which seems to be indis-putably American, what-ever else may remain in doubt regarding it),in a great measure, still remains terra hicov-nlta. The word Alaska is an Englishcorruption of the Aleut Indian name for. As long as Alaska remained a Russianprovince, aquatic furs were its only prod-ucts. An imperial charter


. Book of the Royal blue . TOTEM POLE, FORT WKANGEL, ALASKA North of Parallel Forty-nine A Trip to Alaska via the Inside Passaore By H. F. BALDWIN, in the Southwesterns Book ILTHOUGH nominallyAmerican for more thanforty years, our mostnortherly possession (ex-cepting the North Pole,which seems to be indis-putably American, what-ever else may remain in doubt regarding it),in a great measure, still remains terra hicov-nlta. The word Alaska is an Englishcorruption of the Aleut Indian name for. As long as Alaska remained a Russianprovince, aquatic furs were its only prod-ucts. An imperial charter was granted toa fur-trading company, organized on thelines of its Canadian rival, the Hudson BayCompany, which controlled the countrymuch after the same fashion, only with ahigher and more unscrupulous hand. Alexander Baranoff was the Alaskanagent of this company, and the good or badgenius of Russian Alaska, according to the


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