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Title: Where the Sun Swings North

Author: Barrett Willoughby

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WHERE THE SUN SWINGS NORTH

by

BARRETT WILLOUGHBY

A. L. Burt Company
Publishers ------ New York
Published by arrangement with G. P. Putnam's Sons

Printed in U. S. A.
Copyright, 1922
by
Florance Willoughby

This edition is issued under arrangement with the publishers
G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York And London

TO

MY MOTHER

WHO CAN MAKE A TENT IN THE WILDERNESS

SEEM LIKE HOME

In this book I write of my own country and its people as I know
them--not artfully, perhaps, but truthfully.

BARRETT WILLOUGHBY.

Katalla, Alaska.

CONTENTS

PART I

CHAPTER

I.--THE WHITE CHIEF OF KATLEEAN
II.--THE CHEECHACO
III.--THE LITTLE SQUAW WITH WHITE FEET
IV.--BAIT
V.--THE FUNERAL CANOES
VI.--THE WHITE CHIEF MAKES MEDICINE
VII.--THE POTLATCH DANCE
VIII.--THE OUTFIT
IX.--HARLAN WAKES UP
X.--THE PIGEON

PART II

XI.--THE ISLAND OF THE RUBY SANDS
XII.--THE LANDING
XIII.--THE CABIN
XIV.--THE CASTAWAY
XV.--THE GIANT BALLS OF STONE
XVI.--THE STORM
XVII.--THE MYSTERIOUS PRESENCE
XVIII.--THE PERIL OF THE SURF
XIX.--HOME MAKING
XX.--GOLD
XXI.--KOBUK
XXII.--AT THE LONE TREE
XXIII.--ELLEN
XXIV.--MAROONED

PART III

XXV.--ON RATIONS
XXVI.--WINTER DAYS
XXVII.--SPRING
XXVIII.--THE CLEFT
XXIX.--THE SECRET OF THE CLIFFS
XXX.--THE PIGEON'S FLIGHT
XXXI.--THE JUSTICE OF THE SEA
XXXII.--BENEATH THE BLOOD-RED SUN
XXXIII.--ANCHORS WEIGHED

WHERE THE SUN SWINGS NORTH

PART I

CHAPTER I

THE WHITE CHIEF OF KATLEEAN

It was quiet in the great store room of the Alaska Fur and Trading
Company's post at Kat-lee-an. The westering sun streaming in through a
side window lighted up shelves of brightly label