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Title: The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Hyde, Alexander, 1814-1881 Baldwin, Abraham Chittenden, 1804-1887, joint author Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889, joint author Shields, Charles W. (Charles Woodruff), 1825-1904
Subjects: Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 Polaris (Ship)
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ALEUTIANS CATCHING WHALES. TRAVELS IN ALASKA. 677 geysers, hot springs, and volcanoes. The natives have a curious way of capturing whales. They surround one with boats, and throw into him so many harpoons^to which bladders filled with air are attached, that he is obliged to float on the surface, and is then easily killed with lances. Much of our information respecting the interior of Alaska, was gained by William H. Dall and Frederick Whymper, who traveled there in 1866, under the auspices of the Western Union Telegraph Company.The object of the exploration was to find a suitable route for a telegraph line from Berings Strait to San Francisco, which was to be a part of an inter-continental line, in case the Atlantic cables should fail. The Yukon River which the explore is ascended six hundred miles, is one of the greatest streams in the world. The Amazon, the Mississippi, and perhaps the La Plata, alone surpass it. For a distance of seventeen hundred miles from its mouth, its aver-age widt

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