. Book of the Royal blue . 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. c. r. s. 8. ( ourtesy of Canadian 1MAY the territory, Al-ay-ek-sa, which meansThe Great Country, and the significanceand appropriateness of t
. Book of the Royal blue . 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. c. r. s. 8. ( ourtesy of Canadian 1MAY the territory, Al-ay-ek-sa, which meansThe Great Country, and the significanceand appropriateness of the name are justbeginning to be dimly realized. The land was discovered in 1731, byVitus Behring, a Dane, commanding anexploring expedition sent out by theEmpress Elizabeth, of Russia, in fulfillmentof the plans of Peter the Great, her suffered the fate of most explorers;on his return to Russia, his ship waswrecked on the small island which nowbears his name, and he there died a miser-able death. His Russian lieutenant, Chiri-koff, reached Russia, and claimed thehonors of the discoveries, but time has ren-dered somewhat tardy justice to Behring,and ChirikofFs name is almost forgotten. point of view. His headquarters were onthe site of the present town of Sitka, wherehe built a castle and a fort, which he namedFort Archangel Michael. Archangel Beel-zebub would have been a more appropriatepatron saint, judging by the glimmeringaccoun
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