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Title: Exploring the great Yukon. An adventurous expedition down the great Yukon River, from its source in the British North-west Territory, to its mouth in the territory of Alaska
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Schwatka, Frederick, 1849-1892
Subjects: Yukon River (Yukon and Alaska) Alaska -- Description and travel United States -- Discovery and exploration
Publisher: (n.p.) Art and Science Publishing Society
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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called it Punta Oeste de laEntrada del Principe; all its geographical character-istics and relations being shouldered on it for a name. Early next morning we were in the harbor of Sitka, orNew Archangel, as the Russians called it when they hadit for their capital of this province. The strong, boldbluffs of the interior passages now give way to gentlerelevations along the Pacific seaboard, but the countrygradually rises from the coast until but a few miles backthe same old cloud-capped, snow-covered peaks recur,and as we stand well out to sea they look as abrupt asever. Sitka is a picturesque place when viewed from anypoint except from within the town limits. From thesouth-west, looking north-east. Mount Edgecumbe (ofCook) affords a beautiful background against the west-ern sky, and when that is full of low white clouds theabrupt manner in which the point of the mountain is cutoff gives it the appearance of being buried in the clouds,thus seeming several times higher than it really is.
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THE INLAND PASSAGE TO ALASKA. ^i The harbor of Sitka is so full of small islands thatlooking at it from a height it seems as if it could only bemapped with a pepper-box, and one wonders how anyvessel can get to her wharf. Once alongside, the waterseems as clear as the atmosphere above, and the smallestobjects can be easily identified at the bottom, thoughthere must have been fully thirty or forty feet of waterwhere we made our observations. On one of the large islands in Sitka harbor, called•Japanese Island, an old Niphon Junk was cast, early inthe present century, and her small crew of Japanesewere rescued by the Russians. Sitka has been so ofteniescribed that it is unnecessary to do more than referthe reader to other accounts of the place. Ten oclock in the forenoon of the 31st saw us underw^ay steaming northward, still keeping to the inlandpassage, and en route to deliver wrecking machinery ata point in Peril Straits where the BureJca., a smallsteamer of the same line to which ou

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