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14 THE TOURIST'S NORTHWEST its inlets. Out of Seattle there are trips by the boats of the Puget Sound Navigation Company daily, or six times a week, to Port Townsend, Port Angeles, Everett, Anacortes, Bellingham and Victoria, B. C., with calls at way points. The same company gives a daily service up the long arm of the Hood Canal; his tri-weekly sailings for the San Juan Islands; makes eight trips daily down the Sound to Tacoma and return ; and nine trips a day to Bremerton Navy Yard. Seattle and Olympia are connected by steamer via Tacoma. The Pacific Coast Steamship Company offers a three-day tour around the Sound, leaving on Sun- days from Seattle for Vancouver, B. C., Belling- ham, Anacortes and Tacoma; fare $10, including berth and meals. Various day excursions from Seattle, Tacoma, Port Townsend, Everett and Bellingham, among Puget Sound inlets and islands, are advertised in the local newspapers. The Daily Index, published in Seattle, may be consulted.

Alaska and Trans-Pacific Steamers.

Seattle is the home port of half a dozen passenger lines to Alaska, the principal ones being the Pacific Coast Steamship Company, the Alaska Steamship Company, the Pacific Alaska Navigation Company and the Humboldt Steamship Company. Fare, Seattle - Skagway - Sitka and return, $66, Time, about 12 days. A steamer of the Grand Trunk Pacific Company leaves Seattle weekly for Alaska during the tourist season, calling at Canadian ports en route. The Japanese lines, Nippon Yusen Kaisha from