Exploring the great YukonAn adventurous expedition down the great Yukon River, from its source in the British North-west Territory, to its mouth in the territory of Alaska . as all gonebefore it was half earned. Men and boys alike enteredthe contest, and from half a dozen places at once, in thewoods near by, could be heard the everlasting refrain,the never-ceasing chant of Oh ! oh ! oh ! Oh ! ker-shoo,ker-shoo ! They used also to improvise hats of birch-bark (wherever that tree grew near the evening camp)with pictures upon them that would prohibit their pass-ing through the mails. These habits
Exploring the great YukonAn adventurous expedition down the great Yukon River, from its source in the British North-west Territory, to its mouth in the territory of Alaska . as all gonebefore it was half earned. Men and boys alike enteredthe contest, and from half a dozen places at once, in thewoods near by, could be heard the everlasting refrain,the never-ceasing chant of Oh ! oh ! oh ! Oh ! ker-shoo,ker-shoo ! They used also to improvise hats of birch-bark (wherever that tree grew near the evening camp)with pictures upon them that would prohibit their pass-ing through the mails. These habits do not indicateany great moral improvement thus far produced by con-tact with civilization. Two miles and a half beyond the head of canoe navi-gation, the Kut-laJi-cook-ah River of the Chilkats comesin from the west. This is really larger in volume andwidth than the Dayay, the two averaging respectivelyfifty and forty yards in width by estimation. I short-ened its name, and called it after Professor Nourse ofthe United States Naval Observatory. Large glaciersfeed its sources by numerous waterlalls, and its cahoh-Uke bed is very picturesque. Like all such streams its. OVER THE MOUNTAIN PASS. 75 waters were conspicuously white and milk-like, and themost diligent lislierinan was unrewarded. At the headof the Nourse Kiver the Indians say there is a very largelake. The mountains that bound its course on the west arecapped by an immense glacier, wliich might be tracedalong their summits for probably ten or twelve miles, andwas then lost in the lowering clouds of their icy light fogs are frequent on warm days, when thedifference of temperature at the upper and lower levelsis more marked, but they disappear at night as the tem-jjeratures approach each other. This glacier, a glimpseof which is given on page 73, was named after ProfessorBaird, of the Smithsonian Institute at march of the 9th of June took us three miles and ahalf up the Dayay River, and while
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