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 . ry was won, for to verify the oldadage that * it never rains but it pours good luck, thereat the bank vv^as the river steamer Yukon and from herdecks came a rattling volley of shots to welcome us andto which we replied almost gun for gun. A little morehard pulling and we landed the raft just above the build-ings and about three or four hundred yards thesteamer, which we at once prepared to visit. The Yu-kon is quite
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 . ry was won, for to verify the oldadage that * it never rains but it pours good luck, thereat the bank vv^as the river steamer Yukon and from herdecks came a rattling volley of shots to welcome us andto which we replied almost gun for gun. A little morehard pulling and we landed the raft just above the build-ings and about three or four hundred yards thesteamer, which we at once prepared to visit. The Yu-kon is quite a small affair com^oared with the river boatsof the United States, but quite well built and well mod-eled. They spoke of it as a ten-ton boat, although Itook it to be one of double or treble that capacity, itsmachinery being powerful enough to drive a vessel of 276 ALONG ALASKAS GREAT RIVEh five or six times that tonnage against any ordinary ^^xrent, but very necessary for a boat of even the smallestsize on such a swift stream as the Yukon. The machin-ery took uj) the greater portion of her interior and were itnot for the upper decks, it would have been difficult to. THE STEAMER YUKON, (iN A HERD OP MOOSe). (A scene in the Yukon Flat-lands.) find room for her large crew. The moment I caughtsight of the crew they seemed so like old acquaintancesthat I was on the point of probing my memory for thecircumstances of our former meeting, when a secondthought convinced me that it was only my familiaritywith the Eskimo face that had produced the effect of a THROUGH THE YUKON FLAT-LANDS. 277 recognition. These Eskimos liad been hired on the LowerYukon, and but for their being a little more stolid andhomely than those of north Hudsons Bay, I shouldhave thought myself back among the tribes of that make better and more tractable workmen than anyof the Indians along the river, and in many other ways aresuperior to the latter for the white mens purposes, beingmore honest, ingenio
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