Trails & Tramps In Alaska & Newfoundland

CONTENTS


CHAPTER PAGE

I CRUISING AND HUNTING IN SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA 1

II OBSERVATIONS ON KODIAK ISLAND 64

III HUNTING BIG GAME ON THE KENAI PENINSULA 123

IV A TRIP TO NEWFOUNDLAND 181

V HUNTING WITH A FERRET 222

VI A NIGHT HUNT 238

VII IN THE SPRINGTIME 247

VIII A 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