. Book of the Royal blue . ORT SIMPSON, but a few miles north of PrinceRupert, is the last stop inBritish territory, on thenorthbound trip, and afterthe excitement of theboom town, it was too tame to make much of an impression on us. Oysters are proverbially quiet, but theones in question, while not noisy, accordingto the conversation carried on betweenthe ship and the shore across the gangplank, which happened to be placed nearour stateroom, were noisome. The con-signee refused to receive them and the shiprefused to take them back, and while not. WRANGEL, ALASKA Ketchikan is the first Alaskan
. Book of the Royal blue . ORT SIMPSON, but a few miles north of PrinceRupert, is the last stop inBritish territory, on thenorthbound trip, and afterthe excitement of theboom town, it was too tame to make much of an impression on us. Oysters are proverbially quiet, but theones in question, while not noisy, accordingto the conversation carried on betweenthe ship and the shore across the gangplank, which happened to be placed nearour stateroom, were noisome. The con-signee refused to receive them and the shiprefused to take them back, and while not. WRANGEL, ALASKA Ketchikan is the first Alaskan town, butwe arrived there both north and south boundat an unseasonable hour, and as the shipstopped but a few minutes to discharge andtake on passengers, we did not get to seemuch of this really important town, asAlaskan cities go. In fact, we might nothave known when we reached Ketchikanhad it not been for a case of cove oysters. interested enough to get up and see, thinkit resulted in the ship pulling out and leavingthe oysters on the dock, but it really didseem to be an unfair discrimination thatquiet oysters, canned and boxed, and easilyconfined in the hold should have been re-fused passage, while so many noisy lob-sters, who needed canning, wereallowed to roam all over the ship at will, NORTH OF PARALLEL FORTY-NINE destroy your appetite at the table, and getbetween you and all the choice bits of scen-ery. Doubtless if this had happened southof parallel forty-nine, and the oysters hadcomplained of discrimination to theInterstate Comme
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