Excerpt from A Study of the Thlingets of Alaska Some of the books, and not a few of the articles, were written on hurry-up orders, and by per sons who had merely glanced at the country from the deck of a passing steamer. Hearsay and idle rumour furnished much of their contents. Some of them contain fake stories. Had their authors been more intent on publishing facts than on breaking into print such stories would never have been set up in cold type. A novelist may have some license in printing fiction, but he who pur ports ...
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Excerpt from A Study of the Thlingets of Alaska Some of the books, and not a few of the articles, were written on hurry-up orders, and by per sons who had merely glanced at the country from the deck of a passing steamer. Hearsay and idle rumour furnished much of their contents. Some of them contain fake stories. Had their authors been more intent on publishing facts than on breaking into print such stories would never have been set up in cold type. A novelist may have some license in printing fiction, but he who pur ports to be telling the truth should know whereof he speaks. While there are several reliable works on Alaska in which much may be found concerning the lives of the aborigines, yet even more of inter est has been left unsaid. For this reason the author feels his effort justified in order to give fuller and more accurate information to the public concerning these interesting people. Again, while this work treats almost exclusively of the Thlingets of Alaska, yet what is said of them largely applies to the other classes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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