FOOTNOTE
[1] Fort Chipewyan was at the foot of Athabasca Lake, midway between the mountains and Hudson's Bay.
THE RUSSIANS IN ALASKA.
"Heaven is high and the Czar distant."
Referring to what Drake had done for England, and De Fuca for Spain, the one tacking a name to the coast here, the other there, we find little for more than a century going to show that Europeans thought the discoveries of either worth following up.
What do we then see? Not Spain, not England putting forth a steady hand to grasp the prize each already claimed as its own, but a new power, coming not from the East, but from the West. It is a power hardly known in Europe. It is Russia.
SEALS, ST. PAUL'S ISLAND.