INDEX

[A]

[B]

[C]

[D]

A
Afognak Island, [72]
Akuton Pass, [76]
Anecdotes:
Father Duncan’s story, [9]
Indian legend of totem, [20]
Primitive surgery, [58]
Annette Island, [6]
Aurora Borealis, [170]
B
Barabara, Indian, [107]
Baranoff Island, [28]
Bath à la Wilderness, [128], [173], [174]
Bay of Islands, [184], [221]
Bear feeding, [57]
at camp, [61]
catching, [102]
glacier, [62]
grizzly, vitality of, [104]
Kadiak, [81]
size of, [116]
trailing, [95], [98], [114], [117]
Beaver, [189], [209], [217]
Bee’s nest, [148]
Bell, Mr., [146]
Benjamin Creek, [156]
Berries, [30]
blueberries, [150], [165]
bunchberries, [212]
partridge berries, [166]
salmon-berries, [165]
strawberries, [3], [30]
Bidarka, [21], [116]
Birch, [167], [203], [206], [211]
Bird lime, [281]
Birds:
albatross, black-footed, [29]
American golden-eye, [197], [319]
American goldfinch, [277]
American redstart, [278], [293-296]
belted kingfisher, [305-309]
blue-gray gnat-catchers, [274]
bobwhite, [303], [314]
brown thrasher, [298]
Canada geese, [59]
Canada jays, [207]
cardinals, [248], [250]
chewinks, [302]
cliff swallows, [284]
cormorants, [144]
cowbird, [257], [261], [279]
crane, sandhill, [183]
crossbill, [179], [180]
crows, [82], [118]
cuckoo, yellow-billed, [303]
eagles, [27], [82], [88], [111], [118]
fish ducks, [50]
flickers, [264], [298]
“gony,” [29]
great horned owl, [240]
great northern diver, [169]
greater scaup-duck, [65]
grouse, [169], [310], [313]
Canada, [131]
gulls, [52], [66], [70], [80], [140], [186], [218]
harlequin ducks, [112]
heron, great blue, [27]
green, [268], [310]
herring gulls, [94], [186]
indigo bunting, [255]
kingfisher, [203-216], [305], [310]
kittiwakes, [109]
loon, [170], [186], [188], [216]
magpies, [86]
merganser, [193], [216], [218]
red-breasted, [50]
Mother Carey’s chick, [121]
osprey, [216]
phalaropes, [64]
ptarmigan, [99], [104], [152], [158], [166]
hawk, [159]
quail, [314-316]
ravens, [72]
red-eyed vireo, [259-320]
redpolls, [204]
red-wing blackbird, [283]
rose-breasted grosbeak, [271], [303]
ruby-throated hummingbird, [275]
ruffed grouse, [310-313]
scarlet tanager, [266]
sea-parrot, [91]
snipe, [174]
sparrow, song, [234], [286-288]
white-crowned, [113]
white-throated, [209]
spotted sandpiper, [192]
teal, [59]
tern, Arctic, [109]
white, [92]
thistle-bird, [279]
thrush, wood, [288]
Wilson’s, [196]
titlark, [196]
tree swallows, [213]
tufted titmouse, [254]
turtle doves, [318-320]
whisky jack, [208]
woodpeckers, downy, [277]
red-headed, [296], [303]
Birds, aquatic, [17]
protection of, [321]
Black flies, [190]
Black snake, [291]
Brooks, Alfred H., [2]
Bruce, the Steamer, [181]
Butterflies:
red-spotted purple, [279]
tiger swallow-tail, [214]
Bydarky, The, [175]
C
Cache, [161]
Camera, Auto Graflex, [182]
Camp afire, [55]
Camping under difficulties, [48], [154], [165], [204]
Cape Hinchinbrook, [43]
Cape St. Elias, [41]
Carlisle Institution, [14]
Caribou, [183]
Cathedral Rock, [66]
Cat hunt, [241]
Cheechalker, [127], [128], [131], [145], [173]
Church, Russian, [68]
Clark, W. E., Governor of Alaska, [3], [15]
Columbia glacier, [64]
Controller Bay, [41], [42]
Cook’s Inlet, [176]
Coon hunt, [238]
Cordova, [44]
Creoles, [72]
Crevasses, [33]
Crossing the stream, [106]
Crow’s nest, [82], [118]
D
Dall’s sheep, [146]
Deer Lake, [190]
Devil’s clubs, [146]
Dixon’s Entrance, [4]
Dogs:
catching fish, [52]
caught in trap, [58]
catching salmon, [53]
in action, [226], [232], [240]
Duncan, Rev. William, [6-19]
E
Economic value of birds, [303]
Edgecumbe, Mount, [29]
Esau, [127], [130]
F
Fairweather Range, [30]
Fellow townsman’s camp, [171]
Ferrets, [224], [226], [234]
Fish, black, [17]
Fisher, Hon. Walter L., [2]
Fishing parties, [182]
Flashlight hunting, [197], [243]
Flowers:
bluebells, [159]
crow’s foot, [81]
daisies, [159]
forget-me-nots, [81], [159]
pinks, [82]
trailing arbutus, [189]
trillium, [286]
violets, [159]
wild geranium, [159]
Fort Liscom, [64]
G
Glacier, formation of, [32], [34]
Columbia, [34], [64]
Malaspina, [41]
Muir, [30]
Valdez, [44]
Gravenna Bay, [47]
Greek Church, Russian, [28], [72]
Greek priests, [28]
Ground hog, [238]
Guides, natives as, [125]
Gull Island, [109]
Gun, modern, [157]
H
Hessian fly, [303]
Hudson Bay Company, [29]
Humber, Lower, [210]
Humber River, [190], [214]
Humor of Indian guides, [164]
I
Ice fields, [32]
floe, [22]
Icy Straits, [29]
Iliamnia, [70]
crater of, [176]
Indians, [107]
barabara, [107]
chanting, [163]
family, [56]
feeding on “porky,” [163]
how they live, [107]
humor of, [164]
legend of totems, [20]
making snuff, [167]
superstitions, [170]
tuberculosis among, [14]
Infection unknown in Alaska, [126]
Italians’ camp, [110], [117]
J
Jansen, Capt. Michael, [4], [67]
Juneau, [24]
K
Kadiak bear, [81]
Kamlaykas, [117]
Katella, [41], [43]
Kenai, [124], [175]
“hot time” at, [126]
Kenai Mountains, [152]
Kenai Peninsula, [67]
Kenai River, [25], [130], [134]
killing moose on, [25]
Ketchikan, [4]
Knight’s Island, [64], [78]
Kodak, Eastman, [115]
Kodiak Island, [72], [73]
village of, [72], [79], [120]
L
Lake Skilak, [144]
Lighthouses, [4]
M
Madonna, picture of, [28]
Mandrakes, [301]
Marmot, [158], [162]
Metlakatla, [6]
Moon, illusion of, [170]
Moore, Capt., [18]
Moose, [148]
feeding, [172]
in velvet, [162]
yards, [168]
Moraine, [62]
Mosquitos, [131], [132], [136], [191]
Mount Edgecumbe, [29]
St. Elias, [30-39]
St. Logan, [30]
“Mushee”—sheep, [164]
Muskrat, [216]
N
Native boys, [38]
Newfoundland, [181]
“Nippers,” [191]
North Sydney, [181]
O
Obliterative coloration, [295]
Old Twitchen road, [184]
Opossum, [244], [245]
P
Papooses, [21]
Petersburg, [21]
Photographing natives, [36-38]
Pine trees, [206]
Porcupine, [163]
“Porky,” [140]
Port aux Basques, [181]
Portland, Steamer, [18]
Postscript, [322]
Pot hunters, [315]
Preservation of species, [159]
Prince William Sound, [43]
Protection of birds, [321]
Protective coloration, [313]
Q
Quicksand, experience in, [63]
R
Rabbits, hunting, [223-235]
Raccoon hunt, [241], [242]
Raft, constructing, [187]
Redoubt crater, [176]
Resurrection Bay, [66], [67]
S
Salmon, [48]
catching, [53], [54]
eggs of, [54]
feeding, [215]
gulls picking out eyes of, [53]
hordes of, [50]
humpback, [48]
spawning, [51]
Salt lick, [172]
Seal, [17]
Seal Cove, [218]
Sea Lion Rocks, [67]
Seals, baby, [220]
breeding grounds, [220]
characteristics of, [220]
Seldovia, [68], [123], [173], [179]
Seward, [68]
Shanghai, [166]
Sheep, [152]
Dall’s, [157]
Sheep Creek, [96]
Shellicoff Straits, [71]
Shiras, George III, [156]
Sitka, [27], [29]
Slaughter of game, [25]
Snow-slide, [96]
Snow storm, [100]
Snuff making, [167]
“Sourdough,” [127], [130], [153]
Stranger in camp, [140]
Sycamores, [247]
T
Tenderfoot, [123], [131], [132], [153]
Tom, [296]
after flickers, [264]
Totem poles, [19], [35]
family register, [19]
laparotomy, [22]
legend of, [19]
symbolical of, [19]
witch doctor, [22]
Treadwell Mines, [24]
Trees,
balsam, [184]
birch, [146]
cottonwood, [146]
fir, [184]
pine, [206]
spruce, [146]
white, value of, [211]
sycamores, [247]
Trout, as food, [205], [216]
food of, [213], [215]
Turnagain Bay, [175]
U
Unalaska, [76]
V
Vaccination, [181]
Valdez, [44]
flood at, [44], [64]
leaving, [54]
Vancouver Island, [4]
W
Whale, [66]
White sheep, [152], [156], [157]
Wrangel Narrows, [16], [17], [26]
port of, [18]
Y
Yakutat, [34]

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