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                  COCKBURN, ALEXANDER PETER, businessman, politician, and author; b
                   
                  after his father and was replaced as chief by his brother Alexander. Alex did not have the same control over the band his father had had; consequently Indian agent George P. Cockburn, taking
                  -traps in the oceans, the shallow entrance to Cockburn Channel. In freezing darkness and fierce squalls he struggled to stand off it, and with daylight worked north into the Strait of Magellan to retrace
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