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Title: Forty years on the Pacific : the lure of the great ocean, a book of reference for the traveler and pleasure for the stay-at-home
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Coffee, Frank, d. 1929
Subjects: Oceania -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Oceanic publishing company
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ALASKA 241 Skagway, lying in latitude 56^^°. Many years ago, it wassettled by the Russians, and there are still to be seen theremains of an old Russian fort built to protect them fromthe Indians. As in other ports, fishing is the chief industry,although it is the shipping point for settlements that extendup the Stikine River, one hundred and sixty miles into theinterior. At Wrangell, hunters of big game leave the shipand proceed inland, where the game is plentiful, and guidesare obtainable, who receive six and seven dollars per day fortheir services. Wrangell is also a fur market, and the samemay be said of all the villages along the Alaskan coast. As we journeyed north, the timber became smaller in sizeand less valuable, but suitable for making paper pulp. Shortlyafter leaving Wrangell, we steamed through the WrangellNarrows for twenty miles. These narrows are lighted withstationary lights and flash red and white on either side of thechannel. The light is supplied by some carbon pre

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