. Wonderland, or, The Pacific Northwest and Alaska : with a description of the country traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad . inland, Etolin Island, roundwhose northern coast we steer northeastward to Fort Wrangell, usually the firstcalling place of the steamer, during the tourist season. The Gravina Islandscontain a fine range of mountains, the higher peaks of which have their darkmasses relieved by patches of snow. Revilla Gigedo Island likewise is mount-ainous—its nearer summits clothed with pine, its more distant ones crownedwith everlasting snow. On Prince of Wales Island, the mount
. Wonderland, or, The Pacific Northwest and Alaska : with a description of the country traversed by the Northern Pacific Railroad . inland, Etolin Island, roundwhose northern coast we steer northeastward to Fort Wrangell, usually the firstcalling place of the steamer, during the tourist season. The Gravina Islandscontain a fine range of mountains, the higher peaks of which have their darkmasses relieved by patches of snow. Revilla Gigedo Island likewise is mount-ainous—its nearer summits clothed with pine, its more distant ones crownedwith everlasting snow. On Prince of Wales Island, the mountains rising beforeus are enveloped, for the most part, in a delicious purple haze. As we approachthem, their rocky, precipitous and deeply fissured sides (the last the result ofglacial action, which is plainly visible) afford a striking diversity of outline andcolor, which, added to the beauties of light and shade lent them by passingclouds, have a very fine effect. Clarence Strait is, indeed, a magnificent sheetof water, well worthy of its place in that remarkable series of devious water-ways through which our voyage /I ALASKAN GRAVE AND TOTEM POLES AT FORT WRANGELL. (82) WONDERLAND. 83 Fort Wrangcll, although formerly a place of some importance as the port ofthe Cassiar mines, away in the interior beyond the international boundary, is, ofall the settlements at which the steamer calls, the least attractive in everyrespect save that it is here that the tourist will find the largest assemblage oftotem poles that he will have an opportunity of seeing, as well as several oldgraves of singularly striking appearance. The village, which occupies a beauti-ful site, is given up almost entirely to the Stikine tribe of the Thlinket race, and,within a few minutes after the arrival of the steamer at the wharf, the interior ofalmost every house presents an animated appearance, curio-huntmg passengersthronging them to the doors, and bargaining with their inmates for the variousobjec
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