INDEX
Reading edition
AB CD EF GH IJ KL M
NO PQ RS TU VW XY Z
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
A Selection from the Catalogue of G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS
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