CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
ICruising and Hunting in Southeastern Alaska[1]
IIObservations on Kodiak Island[64]
IIIHunting Big Game on the Kenai Peninsula[123]
IVA Trip to Newfoundland[181]
VHunting with a Ferret[222]
VIA Night Hunt[238]
VIIIn the Springtime[247]
VIIIA Plea for Protection[305]

ILLUSTRATIONS

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[Mother ’Possum and her Family]Frontispiece
[Ketchikan]3
[Myriads of Salmon]5
[“Father” Duncan]7
[Metlakatla]8
[Guest House]9
[“Father” Duncan’s Church]10
[Where the Indians Roamed]11
[Street Scene in Metlakatla]12
[Metlakatla Belles]13
[Indians Cheering the Secretary]15
[Totems at Sitka]18
[Indian War Canoe]20
[Petersburg]22
[Streams of Crystal Water]23
[Lighthouse near Dixon’s Entrance]26
[Sitka]27
[Priests of the Greek Church at Sitka]28
[Fairweather Range]30
[Upper Ice Fields]31
[The Author Looking into a Crevasse]33
[Native Women Trading]35
[Mother and Babe]36
[Playing in the Sand]37
[Native Boys out Gunning]38
[Sunset near St. Elias]39
[Cape St. Elias]41
[Hinchinbrook Island]44
[Valdez after the Flood]45
[Bruin in a Steel Trap]46
[Salmon Running up Stream to Spawn]49
[Killing Fish with a Club]50
[Gulls Feeding on Salmon]51
[A Good Fisherman]52
[Dogs Fishing for Salmon]53
[Indian Hut]55
[Indian Graves]56
[Indian Women Repairing the Bidarka]57
[Sunrise]60
[Our Permanent Camp]61
[An Island near Valdez]65
[Sea Lion Rocks]67
[Seward]68
[Seldovia]69
[Turbulent Shellicoff]71
[The Ravens]72
[Kodiak]79
[Gull Island]80
[Forget-me-nots]81
[Crow’s Nest and Young]82
[Nests of Eagle and Magpie]83
[Eagle Watching for Prey]85
[Eagle’s Nest and Young]86
[First Sight of Day]88
[Sea Parrot Incubating]90
[Sea Parrot’s Nest and Egg]91
[Characteristic Nest of "Gygis"]93
[Nest and Eggs of Herring Gull]94
[Our Camp among the Cottonwoods]97
[An Extinct Crater where the Bear Hibernate]101
[Where he fell]103
[Stretched Bear Skins]105
[Indian Barabara]108
[Kodiak Island Pinks]109
[Kenai River]129
[Lining the Boat]133
[Mid-day on the Kenai]137
["Porky"]141
[The Tonsorial Artist at Work]144
[Ready for the Start]147
[Approaching the Low Pass]149
[Home of the White Sheep]151
[Seeking a Ford]155
[Ptarmigan]167
[A Bath in Lake Skilak]174
[Bay of Islands]185
[Constructing a Raft]186
[One Took to the Woods]187
[One of the Others]188
[Trailing Arbutus]190
[Spotted Sandpiper’s Nest]192
[Merganser’s Nest]194
[Nest of Wilson’s Thrush]195
[Learning to Swim]199
[Out for Themselves]200
[Learning to Walk]201
[Reflections]202
[Radiant Splendor]206
[Whiskey Jack]208
[Nest and Eggs of the White-Throated Sparrow]209
[Bunchberries]213
[The “Steady”]215
[Solitude]217
[Breakfast Head on the Humber River]219
[Color Blending]224
[Putting in the Ferret]226
[His Last Nibble]229
[In Hot Pursuit]230
[Picked up]231
[Down the Old Fence]233
[The Dog Listening to the Last Sound]235
[Did he Come out?]236
[The Hunting Party]239
[Dog and Coon in the Mix-up]244
[Home of the Cardinal]249
[Cardinal’s Nest and Eggs]252
[Winter in the North]254
[Indigo Bunting’s Nest with Cowbird’s Egg]256
[The Young Interloper]258
[A Well-Constructed Home]259
[Madam Vireo at Home]260
[The Usurper]262
[Young Flickers]265
[Nest and Eggs of Tanager]267
[Little Green Heron’s Nest]268
[Little Green Heron’s Nest]269
[Leaving the Nest]270
[Nest and Eggs of Grosbeak]272
[Nestlings]273
[Fledglings]274
[Tom at the Nest]275
[Nest and Eggs of Blue-Gray Gnat-Catcher]276
[Nest and Young of Goldfinch]277
[Red-Spotted Purple Butterfly on Queen Anne’s Lace]278
[Young Goldfinch]280
[Nest of Red-Wing Blackbird]282
[Young Red-Wing Blackbirds]283
[Homes of the Cliff Swallows]285
[Nest of the Song Sparrow]287
[A Tragedy in Nature]288
[Wood-Thrush]289
[Nest and Eggs of Wood-Thrush]290
[Up a Stump]291
[Wood-Thrush’s Nest with Young]292
[Nest and Eggs of American Redstart]294
[Lady Redstart and her Home]295
[Nest and Eggs of Blue-Winged Warbler]296
[Young Woodpeckers Foraging]297
[Nest and Eggs of the Thrasher]299
[On Night Turn]300
[Young Thrasher]301
[A Delightful Place]306
[Caught]307
[Nest and Eggs of Ruffed Grouse]313
[Not Certain]315
[A Sure Point]317
[Orchard Nest of Mourning Dove]318
[Two Little Turtle-Doves]320