Identifier: ourlittlealaskan00nixo (find matches)
Title: Our little Alaskan cousin
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Nixon-Roulet, Mary F
Subjects: Children
Publisher: Boston, L.C. Page & Co.
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ries,speaks of the same fish. There is a famous 98 Our Little Alaskan Cousin fishery there now called the Davidson Banks,and the codfishing fleet has its headquarters onPopoff Island. Millions of codfish are caughthere every year. These islands are also a fa-vourite haunt of the sea otter. Belofsky, at thefoot of Mt. Pavloff, is the centre of the trade. What kind of fur is otter? asked Ted,whose mind was so inquiring that his fatheroften called him the living catechism. It is the court fur of China and Russia, andat one time the common people were forbiddenby law to wear it, said Mr. Strong. It is arich, purplish brown sprinkled with silver-tippedhairs, and the skins are very costly. At one time any one could have otter, saidKalitan. We hunted them with spears andbows and arrows. Now they are very few, andwe find them only in dangerous spots, hidingon rocks or floating kelp. Sometimes the hunt-ers have to lie in hiding for days watching them.Only Indians can kill the otter. Boston men
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MOUNT SHISHALDIN. On the Way to Nome 99 can if they marry Indian women. That makesthem Indian. Rather puts otter at a discount and womenat a premium, laughed Mr. Strong. Nowwe pass along near the Alaska peninsula, pastcountless isles and islets, through the FoxIslands to Unalaska, and then into the BeringSea. One of the most interesting things in thisregion is called the Pacific Ring of Fire, achain of volcanoes which stretches along thecoast. Often the passengers can see from theships at night a strange red glow over the sky,and know that the fire mountains are burning.The most beautiful of these volcanoes is Mt.Shishaldin, nearly nine thousand feet high, andalmost as perfect a cone in shape as Fuji Yama,which the Japanese love so much and call theHonourable Mountain. At Unalaska or Ilin-link, the * curving beach, we stop. If we couldstay over for awhile, there are a great manyinteresting things we could see; an old Greek ioo Our Little Alaskan Cousin church and the government school

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