Part I--Previous Explorations in the St. Elias Region . . . . . . 58 Bering, 1741 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Cook, 1778 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 La Pérouse, 1786 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 Dixon, 1787 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 Douglas, 1788 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Malaspina, 1792 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Vancouver, 1794 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Belcher, 1837 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Tebenkof, 1852 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1874, 1880 . . . . 70 New York _Times_ Expedition, 1886 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 Topham Expedition, 1888 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 Part II--Narrative of the St. Elias Expedition of 1890 . . . . . 75 Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 From Seattle to Sitka . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 From Sitka to Yakutat Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 Canoe Trip up Yakutat Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Base Camp on the Shore of Yakutat Bay . . . . . . . . . . . 86 First Day's Tramp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Canoe Trip in Disenchantment Bay . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 From Yakutat Bay to Blossom Island . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Blossom Island . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113 Life above the Snow-Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122 First Camp in the Snow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124 {54} Across Pinnacle Pass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 First full View of St. Elias . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Summit of Pinnacle Pass Cliffs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Across Seward Glacier to Dome Pass . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Up the Agassiz Glacier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 Camp on the Newton Glacier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Highest Point reached . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Alone in the highest Camp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 The Return . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Suggestions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Part III--Sketch of the Geology of the St. Elias Region . . . . . 167 General Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Yakutat System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 Pinnacle System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 St. Elias Schist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Geological Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
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