Gulf and Glacier; or, The Percivals in Alaska

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Willis Boyd Allen. Gulf and Glacier; or, The Percivals in Alaska

CHAPTER I. NORTHERN BOUND

CHAPTER II. FOREST AND PRAIRIE

CHAPTER III. A HOME LETTER

CHAPTER IV. THE GLACIER AND THE BEAR

CHAPTER V. A KING’S DAUGHTER IN A FREIGHT CAR

CHAPTER VI. VICTORIA AND “THE QUEEN.”

CHAPTER VII. SOLOMON BARANOV

CHAPTER VIII. ALIVE OR DEAD?

CHAPTER IX. THE SILVER-TIP

CHAPTER X. ON THE MUIR GLACIER

CHAPTER XI. FAIR SITKA

CHAPTER XII. THE “CHICHAGOFF DECADE.”

CHAPTER XIII. HOMEWARD BOUND

CHAPTER XIV. WONDERLAND

CHAPTER XV. WHITE LILIES

CHAPTER XVI. CONCLUSION

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It was a merry party that assembled in the Windsor Station, Monday evening. No sooner had they found their places in the “Kamloops” than out they jumped again, and began promenading up and down the long platform.

“Let’s see what the names of the other cars are,” said Fred; and Bess, thereupon, called them out, as they walked beside the train: “‘Calgary,’ ‘Nepigon,’ ‘Toronto,’ ‘Missanabie.’”

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For Tom’s fire did not seem to progress favorably. Several matches had already been blown out by the fresh lake breeze, and the few twigs that had at last caught, now smoked feebly.

“This is the meanest wood!” labored Tom. “Wet’s water.” And he essayed another match.

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