Excerpt from Fur-Clad Adventurers or Travels in Skin-Canoes, on Dog-Sledges, on Reindeer, and on Snow-Shoes: Through Alaska, Kamchatka, and Eastern Siberia We remark, as we have in effect in our rela tive volumes, that the spelling of the proper names belonging to the Arctic regions is an Art which no man seems yet to have learned; the aim of authors in this line appears to have been originality, as few agree with any other, and not every one agrees with himself. We have aimed at the simplest form having any credit able authority. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.