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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (May 31, 1890)
WKST HlOKK. KOUKT ST. ELIAS. II K h'f)tt fountain In North Awrim i ur ruti'H Ir l) dfk't i.tt' ry. It Mer out of an u r A r n land, wh'-r r hutnan fot ha f trf if( Itff T.li n an u!ffju',til','l and lfif'fi ft, triuvgy at ih' r)tff,ri'' of th Arc lie trgviut. In .tly fund-ir, in fuln-, and hit j.Jcfi'J -r, M. Kl. i ti"t fjual"!. Nonh'Tf elce U llVr in aljt txarly fur tun high, fdrf-d dn to th try U jn Vffal nw, and j-nding aUne the lri, dark aw i f ll And try rarely U tin twor.Uiri n, f ,r th arni at I uoiJur lad n wind that Mine Mand Aliaka, filling the Pacific J()Wn the furty-eifthth parallel, ai he had nil ThmjU thtt win-acre drew a map, netting forth how tL it-land ought to U An expedition wa ejuip-d ud-J on Vitus IU-hring, a Dane, and toolt two yean Uf launching it little fjuadron on Pacific water. TU land wa coant'-d right north to IMiring traiu, l there it U-gan to trend westward again. So, at 1 there t out the memorable- aecond exjedition. I think it wa in 1741. ttehring snd TschirikotT ia their little hip St. Vtttt and St. Paul, failed into unknown eact and found nothing. They routed about jud where the inland ought to be, hut it wun't 5 Cm 7 Ml) 0 ' I X -5 ' iMa-.Mr .t. ium, ?,oro ritr iimu. f tb IVif.c Uk u,..t, thr t.,iChtr hrisht. f n an I ihhti I ihrut in lii(.,.t jrjttu d.-ud In lb Ufinnii j 4,f th, fTljtufy rutUif, frarj,i tU n.utl Y Ku..it jhat, fMii thr U,t enfinr, f AUila. a ctti Un4.fn.fi, hi.h lrM ram Jriftirjj lU r.t Tl yAvlu c.jhfrine r!ll hrr f-ff.jW, Lthrr NmKI. Ilirjr Mi,, 1M kni(W() f tU IV ,frf u Mr n,rth.ird . C.l.f.mta. which a i .m . MiirM f.Ur, Thrrt wa.,ir.M,th, Irpn I Ud t; that ,41 (;rk ,lt, Jn,n J, Kurt ,.f 1 Mrait. .1 Atian. that ,n at lU fHjhth ,4f. 11 thj )c ihf, Md lna.;niu to tl, Atlantic and, twth ,t nil f j.u cf Anufl( lU Uft , tatt there. The world wa nt laid out corrcx tljr and in accordant with the chart, and provifiion wort njn uing hort. lUhring utill cruiVd alwut in Kartb d the runaway inland. TchirikolT ilipjl away of I'ijht and U the north and went, until, at M, he ran.e u CroM utrait, and waa thus the diWtrrf of Alka. S ing native, he landetl a U-at mf f-r witrr; tnc unshed Uhind a p int and "rfn "re. Heart ick, he ent another l-t'i ww, and that vanMVd Uhind the point atsl n n in-.rr. AtVr long delay he Milrd. ai l drfianc of thir.t and curry, through won d-rU J' venturr. oti the tulh coait of Alaska, got l a k alirt t S.Uria.