Overland MonthlyA. Roman and Company, 1897 |
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... island in search of seals and edible roots , and his energy by helping them to build underground huts in which to pass the long and cold winter . Though food often ran short , and many hardships had to be en- dured , Baranof learned ...
... island in search of seals and edible roots , and his energy by helping them to build underground huts in which to pass the long and cold winter . Though food often ran short , and many hardships had to be en- dured , Baranof learned ...
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... islands , he erected quarters for his ship - carpenters on the shores of Sunday bay in Prince William sound , and all through the winter the work of felling trees went on . But tar and oak- um for calking were entirely lacking , and the ...
... islands , he erected quarters for his ship - carpenters on the shores of Sunday bay in Prince William sound , and all through the winter the work of felling trees went on . But tar and oak- um for calking were entirely lacking , and the ...
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... islands , organ- izing the North American company , and ex- tending traffic from Unalashka to the Arctic ocean . He established a central office at Irkutsk for the control of his many Ameri- can enterprises , thus paving the way for the ...
... islands , organ- izing the North American company , and ex- tending traffic from Unalashka to the Arctic ocean . He established a central office at Irkutsk for the control of his many Ameri- can enterprises , thus paving the way for the ...
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... islands between it and Asia . Shelikof's daughter had married Rezanof , a man of good family and great influence . Rezanof formed the ambitious project of procuring from the Empress a charter as wide as that of the British East India ...
... islands between it and Asia . Shelikof's daughter had married Rezanof , a man of good family and great influence . Rezanof formed the ambitious project of procuring from the Empress a charter as wide as that of the British East India ...
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land of America and the islands from Kam- chatka west to the coast of America , and south to the shores of Japan . No rivals , even though having posts already estab- lished within these limits , if not united with the Russian American ...
land of America and the islands from Kam- chatka west to the coast of America , and south to the shores of Japan . No rivals , even though having posts already estab- lished within these limits , if not united with the Russian American ...
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