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Excerpt from The Soul of Alaska: A Comment and a Description to Which Is Added a Catalogue Raisonné of a Series of Bronze Statuettes Illustrative of Alaskan Indian Characteristics and Social Habitudes, Modelled by Louis Potter and Cast Into Bronze by the Gorham Company
Who arranged the terms of the sale but little was known of the property to be disposed of on the one hand and acquired on the other. Their knowledge probably did not exceed that pos sessed by the generality or ordinarily well-in formed people. Alaska was practically an Arc tic region discovered about the middle of the eighteenth century by a Russian expedition under the Behring who gave his name to the Straits dividing Asia from America, and during the half century following settled at one or two points by Russian fur-traders until at the open ing of the nineteenth century the Emperor Paul practically transferred the administration of the colony to a russo-american fur company which retained supreme control until their privileges expired a few years before the transfer to the United States.
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