Klondike and the Yukon Country: A Description of Our Alaskan Land of Gold from the Latest Official and Scientific Sources and Personal ObservationH. Altemus, 1897 - 213 страница |
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... native woman of the Stick tribe , and he had two dark- skinned children following him about . He had been in the country eight years , and much of the time had been spent with the Sticks at Tagish House , on the chain of lakes that form ...
... native woman of the Stick tribe , and he had two dark- skinned children following him about . He had been in the country eight years , and much of the time had been spent with the Sticks at Tagish House , on the chain of lakes that form ...
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... natives will receive large profits . The overland trip involves a climb of 3500 feet to the summit of Chilkoot Pass , and it is one of the most impressively picturesque jour- neys that can be imagined . The landscape is resplendent with ...
... natives will receive large profits . The overland trip involves a climb of 3500 feet to the summit of Chilkoot Pass , and it is one of the most impressively picturesque jour- neys that can be imagined . The landscape is resplendent with ...
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... natives , the buildings being the only permanent structures in hundreds of miles above where the Pelly and Lewis Rivers join to make the Yukon . Lake Marsh , which is next entered , stretches along at a width of two miles for a distance ...
... natives , the buildings being the only permanent structures in hundreds of miles above where the Pelly and Lewis Rivers join to make the Yukon . Lake Marsh , which is next entered , stretches along at a width of two miles for a distance ...
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... native dress of skin trousers and parka . The best of these shirt - like garments are brought over from Siberia , and find ready sale at $ 25 . There are two kinds of boots , the water boot , made of seal and walrus skins , and the dry ...
... native dress of skin trousers and parka . The best of these shirt - like garments are brought over from Siberia , and find ready sale at $ 25 . There are two kinds of boots , the water boot , made of seal and walrus skins , and the dry ...
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... native mothers ) , but it will puzzle even the most learned ethnologist to find anything in their feat- ures or complexions by which to distinguish them from the race to which their fathers belonged . They are , to all intents and ...
... native mothers ) , but it will puzzle even the most learned ethnologist to find anything in their feat- ures or complexions by which to distinguish them from the race to which their fathers belonged . They are , to all intents and ...
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