Alaska, sein Wasser, Land und Leben; eine illustrierte Vortrag. Dders, auf Aas Lachs in der frozenground begraben, wenn wir solche Dinge, weiter ist auf u=Die Walfänger beeindruckt sehen, suchen die Meere für die Barten der Walbeifänge undfür das Elfenbein des Walross, haben Schier ridded der northernwaters dieser Arten. Und als die Nummern dieser haben - ^j, verbraucht die Versorgung der Eingeborenen hat accordmghdecreased. Hunger hat mehr als einmal visitedthe träge, harmlose Eskimo, der die bleakslopes der Bering Meer bewohnen, und die gesamte disappearanceof der Ureinwohner Alaskas

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Alaska, its waters, land and life; an illustrated lecture . dders, on carrion salmon buried in the frozenground, when we see such things the fact is further impressed upon u=The whalers, searching the seas for the baleen of the cetacean andfor the ivory of the walrus, have well nigh ridded the northernwaters of these species. And as the numbers of these have -^j been depleted the food supply of the natives has accordmghdecreased. Starvation has more than once visitedthe slothful, harmless Eskimo who inhabit the bleakslopes of the Bering Sea, and the total disappearanceof the aboriginal Alaskan would necessarily followthe passing of the creaturesof his subsistence. Ac-cordingly, the governmenthas purchased from theChuckchees, on the Siber-ian side, a number ofdomestic reindeer, with theview of making the Eski-mo, as are the Siberians, herders of this animal.Twelve hundred of themhave been imported intoAlaska, and have therebeen distributed to the various missions whose Taking Reindeer on Shipboard at Siberia 14 ALASKA, ITS WATERS, LAND AND LIFE.. children are taught to attend them. Thegovernment, however, maintains the principalstation in its own charge. The reindeer ispeculiarly adapted to the climate of Alaska, in that it eats moss with which the whole ofthe interior region is covered ; cold and snowhave no effect upon it, and its fur is the warm-est and most desirable of Arctic clothing. It :|t.^ v4*s5f* in the Arctic Ocean. is a fleet draught beast, but it cannot bear a pack except upon its shoulders. Its flesh is adelicacy, the milk is creamy and nutritious, but bitter and will not churn into butter. From Teller Reindeer Station at Port Clarence, to Point Barrow at lands end on thenorth, the coast is barren, desolate and wild. Nothing but whales are thtre in thispolar ocean to attract vessels, but in pursuit of these, ships will penetrate the distancefar into the latitudes of Herald Island. Whole fleets are sometimes caught in theice there. The vessels sail into t

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• bookcentury1800
• bookdecade1890
• bookidalaskaitswat
• bookyear1898