Chapter I: Foreword

Here, in story form, is the natural history of Alaska, our last great American wilderness.

In the adventures of the wee white polar bear, who drifts down the coast on a floating berg, the young reader has a chance to see Southern Alaska, with its two months of lush summer verdure, as well as the long frozen winter under the Northern lights, and the later summers far out in Bering Strait.

With the enterprising bear cub, he can watch Eskimos and reindeer, seals and walruses, migratory sea birds and the salmon who swim the inland waterways to spawn. He will witness the birth of an ice-berg and adventure amid the storms and glaciers of the polar night.

There is also the story of a seal baby, who became the pet of the fisherman’s little boy.

CONTENTS

SITKA, THE SNOW BABY

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I. THE LITTLE WHITE BEAR 1

II. UNGA, THE ESKIMO BOY 8

III. ADRIFT ON AN ICE-BERG 15

IV. THE WALRUS HERD 22

V. SUMMER IN ALASKA 29

VI. BLUEBERRIES AND MOSQUITOES 34

VII. AN ADVENTURE 41

VIII. WOLVES AND SALMON 47

IX. THE BIRTH OF AN ICE-BERG 56

X. MONSTERS OF THE SEA 62

XI. TOOTH AND FANG 68

XII. “LET THERE BE PEACE” 81

FINNY-FOOT, THE SEAL

I. THE WATER PUPPY 88

II. PIETRO’S PET 95

III. THE TRAINED SEALS 101

IV. FLAPPER THE FUR SEAL 108

GLOSSARY OF ALASKAN WORDS 116