dushnoi

Updated: May 21, 2025

The next year it was sold to Hutchinson, Kohl & Co., and later was sold to a firm that ran it to Puget Sound, and from Alaska to San Francisco. It was built of Alaska cedar timber, the dushnoi dereva or scented wood of the Russians, and was spiked with hand-made copper spikes.

Clarence Leroy Andrews - The Story of Sitka: The Historic Outpost of the Northwest Coast