The Spirit of missions . egrees above zero inside—a differenceof 210 degrees—^maintained for hoursand hours by that little vacuum be-tween. Well, it is a great thing for theArctic regions. We reached Eagle on Wednesdayevening; land all Thursday, Friday andSaturday the thermometer stood at 60degrees below or lower, with a thick pallover the town; partly of condensed vaporfrom a creek that empties into theYukon beside the town, and will notfreeze up entirely, partly of wood flresburning their hottest in every cabin, thesmoke of which cannot rise in the coldair. Why is it that when the barometeri
The Spirit of missions . egrees above zero inside—a differenceof 210 degrees—^maintained for hoursand hours by that little vacuum be-tween. Well, it is a great thing for theArctic regions. We reached Eagle on Wednesdayevening; land all Thursday, Friday andSaturday the thermometer stood at 60degrees below or lower, with a thick pallover the town; partly of condensed vaporfrom a creek that empties into theYukon beside the town, and will notfreeze up entirely, partly of wood flresburning their hottest in every cabin, thesmoke of which cannot rise in the coldair. Why is it that when the barometeris highest (which it always is when thethermometer is lowest) and therefore theair is supposed to be heaviest, smoke willnot rise? That is one of our Alaskanparadoxes; like open water at 60 degreesbelow zero. Men of sufficiently enormousknowledge to solve these problems do notcome to Alaska, or, if they do, they goout before the winter, for fear of freez-ing their brains, I imagine. So we lay around the mission, inert. STEAMING HOT COCOA AT 60 DEGREES BELOW ZEROWhat a comfort the thermos flasks are on a day like that! A NATIVE CABIN IN THE COUNTRY The Kobuks are taking possession of the Chandalar River as thej/ already have of theKoyukuk. The spreading of these Eskimo people along the northern rivers of theinterior is the most interesting feature of the native life of Alaska to-day for the most part, like all other livingthings at 60 degrees helow zero; doingno more than call upon the commandingofficer at the military post. Mr. Burgess,our layman in charge of this mission,has made great headway with the sol-diers, and it was pleasant to see howkindly he is regarded by the rank and fileand to hear how they flock to his is a hard matter to get hold of theprivate soldier at any army post, and has succeeded in doing it to aremarkable extent. Fort Egbert is for-tunate also in a commandant, CaptainIlannigan, who has the good of his com-mand very m
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