TROUBLESOME PRISONER 76
XII. WAYS OF THE WILDERNESS 80
XIII. MAKING A LIVING 93
XIV. THE SURPRISE 101
XV. THE WHALE-HUNT 111
XVI. THE MISSING PRISONER 122
XVII. THE ALEUT BOY 126
XVIII. UNWELCOME VISITORS 130
XIX. HOPE DEFERRED 136
XX. THE SILVER-GRAY FOX 143
XXI. AN ALEUT GOOSE-HUNT 159
XXII. SPORT WITH THE SALMON 170
XXIII. AMONG THE EAGLES 182
XXIV. AN ADVENTURE ON THE GULL ROCKS 191
XXV. CRIPPLES' CASTLE 207
XXVI. THE JOURNEY AND THE STORM 223
XXVII. THE MAN-HUNT 245
XXVIII. A HUNT FOR SEA-OTTER 255
XXIX. UNCERTAINTY 263
XXX. "BLOWN OUT TO SEA!" 271
XXXI. THE SEARCH-PARTY 276
XXXII. THE DESERTED CAMP 282
XXXIII. SAVED! 287

ILLUSTRATIONS

SUDDENLY DROPPING TO HIS KNEE HE FIRED
WITHOUT HESITATION _Frontispiece_

HE SHIFTED HIS GUN TO HIS LEFT HAND AND
HELD OUT HIS RIGHT WITH A SMILE _Facing p._ 102

THE ALEUT BOY LAUNCHED HIS MISSILE INTO
THE MASS OF FLYING FOWL " 164

BOTH OTTER AND ARROW HAD DISAPPEARED,
BUT THE ALEUT SAT WAITING GRIMLY " 260

THE YOUNG ALASKANS

I

AT HOME IN ALASKA

"Steamboat! Steamboat!"

Rob McIntyre had been angling for codfish at the top of Valdez dock for
the past half-hour. Now, hearing the hoarse boom of the ocean vessel's
whistle out in the fog-bank which covered the mouth of the harbor, he
pulled in his fishing-line, hurriedly threw together his heap of
flapping fish, and, turning, sent shoreward the cry always welcome to
dwellers in Alaska coast towns.

"Steamboat! Steamboat!" Some one at the freight office on Valdez dock
heard