. Shores and Alps of Alaska . ngs are still the largest inthe settlement. The extinct volcano of Mount Edgcumbe liesacross the bay, with vertical stripes of snow on itssides. Our party made it 1022 metres in the arrival of each steamer the inhabitants of 4o SHORES AND ALPS OF ALASKA. Sitka agree to go mad. Indian maidens dancewith miners, and night, never very dark, is turnedinto day. Meanwhile the squaws drive a good trade in articles of nativemanufacture and even insuch things as young bearand blacktail deer. The Pinta had to waita fortnight before she couldtake us north, for coals
. Shores and Alps of Alaska . ngs are still the largest inthe settlement. The extinct volcano of Mount Edgcumbe liesacross the bay, with vertical stripes of snow on itssides. Our party made it 1022 metres in the arrival of each steamer the inhabitants of 4o SHORES AND ALPS OF ALASKA. Sitka agree to go mad. Indian maidens dancewith miners, and night, never very dark, is turnedinto day. Meanwhile the squaws drive a good trade in articles of nativemanufacture and even insuch things as young bearand blacktail deer. The Pinta had to waita fortnight before she couldtake us north, for coals andfor the mails. It was there-fore decided that we shouldmake a fishing and huntingexcursion, which the Sitkapaper (for a weekly journalis published) described as a party of young gentle-men in search of the pic-turesque in Nature and theexciting in adventure. Theyare procuring Indian guidesand evidently mean business,though it is all for hired three Indians and a large war-canoe,with a smaller one for A full-sized hydah or war-canoe measures some A SITKA SALMON FISHERY, 4i thirty feet in length, and can sail ten knots with a good breeze. We first camped some miles away from Sitka by some old Russian weirs, where every moment a salmon or a salmon trout might be seen darting, as one gazed, out of the briny foam into the fresh water of the lake hard by, from which it is divided by some rocky channels only a few yards in length, some of which are natural and others artificial, these latter dating from the Russian occupation. A solitary white man in charge directs the operations of salting the salmon-bellies ; while each morning the hired f • 1Indians arrived from some j !spot in the bay known only L-— — tO themselves With a large He/means business, though it is all for pleasure. canoe-load of silver salmon. Large quantities of salmon refuse are thrown intothe sea, where numbers of enormous cat-fish and dog-fish can be seen struggling for the morsels,
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