Alaska and the Panama canal . cognize. He did, however, succeed in namingLake Bennett, on the White Pass in Yukon Territory, in honorof his employer. Lieutenant Schwatka is an old friend of the writer, and con-tributor to TJie Saturday Blade. I thought of him frequentlyas I sailed down the Yukon River. We passed one steamboatbearing his name. He is endeared to the readers of my publi-cations through the discovery of a race of people in OldMexico, the cliff and cave dwellers, which was supposed to havebeen extinct for over 300 years, and aided the writer in bring-ing to the United States in 189
Alaska and the Panama canal . cognize. He did, however, succeed in namingLake Bennett, on the White Pass in Yukon Territory, in honorof his employer. Lieutenant Schwatka is an old friend of the writer, and con-tributor to TJie Saturday Blade. I thought of him frequentlyas I sailed down the Yukon River. We passed one steamboatbearing his name. He is endeared to the readers of my publi-cations through the discovery of a race of people in OldMexico, the cliff and cave dwellers, which was supposed to havebeen extinct for over 300 years, and aided the writer in bring-ing to the United States in 1890 thirteen Indians, men, womenand children, who were pronounced by the professors at Har-vard, Yale and Princeton as being genuine descendants of theoriginal cave and cliff dwellers of Arizona and New Mexico;in fact, through him the very first expedition of TJie SaturdayBlade was made St. IMichael, Schwatkacoasted along the Sew^ardPeninsula toward BeringStrait in the Arctic Ocean, andbrought back to the writer.
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