Rod and gun . go ona laro;e bara:e that afternoon. That nightwe pulled up stakes as a fine sheet of wa-ter opened up and a musher informed usit was clear to the foot of the lake. Werowed along in the gathering darknesstill eleven oclock when we ran intofloating ice and had a ticklish time forc-ing a passage in the dark and penetra-ting cold. It looked like a night for uson the ice but we got out in the floestwice, dragged the boats over andthrough and camped near Lower Laberge time dreaded Thirty Alile River. Ourgrub had run short and it was a hungrycrowd that ran into Hootalinkwa postlate tha
Rod and gun . go ona laro;e bara:e that afternoon. That nightwe pulled up stakes as a fine sheet of wa-ter opened up and a musher informed usit was clear to the foot of the lake. Werowed along in the gathering darknesstill eleven oclock when we ran intofloating ice and had a ticklish time forc-ing a passage in the dark and penetra-ting cold. It looked like a night for uson the ice but we got out in the floestwice, dragged the boats over andthrough and camped near Lower Laberge time dreaded Thirty Alile River. Ourgrub had run short and it was a hungrycrowd that ran into Hootalinkwa postlate that afternoon for provisions. Though not as thrilling as the crossingof the lake the trip down the four hun-dred and fifty miles of river was none theless interesting. Nor were such gruel-ling obstacles encountered. Instead wehad a week of steady rowing, each onetaking turns of about an hours durationat the oars, from seven in the morningtill after eight at night when we kept alookout for good camping ground. By. at midnight when we lighted the fire andlay on the pebbly beach in our blanketswith the Yukon sky overhead. Thehoarse cry of a loon on the lake and theanswering call of a coyote beyond thefarther shore, the crackling of our campfire, and we were soon asleep. A slightfall of snow covered our blankets in thegrey dawn of the early morning and theair was chilly. We saw the last of La-berge at nine oclock greatly to our sat-isfaction and at once we were on therapid waters of the famous and at one the time we had unloaded the boats,cooked the evening meal and put up thetents we were ready to turn in. Wecamped about ten miles below Hoota-linkwa the first night on the river, passedBig Salmon next forenoon and pitchedour tents that evening four miles aboveLittle Salmon which we reached nextmorning. We came up to TantalusMines in the afternoon and Cormacksroadhouse, where we put in a few min-utes later. Our boats had by this timereached the double loop that winds about 9o8 ROD AND
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