Alaska, its waters, land and life; an illustrated lecture . In Comfortable Winter Quarie t«M r.^ I. The Great Yukon FROM THE ... Porcupine to the Grubstack at Rampart City. ^jf^ERHAPS an oomeak, one of those long boats built b} the Yukon Indians, covered with walrus hide two inches thick, and capable of carrying twelve persons, would be as comfortable a vessel in which to navigate the great Yukon as any. For from Dawson some hundreds of miles below, the river is very shallow, and last winter some of the lightest draft steamers, drawing but three feet of water, were unable to ascend
Alaska, its waters, land and life; an illustrated lecture . In Comfortable Winter Quarie t«M r.^ I. The Great Yukon FROM THE ... Porcupine to the Grubstack at Rampart City. ^jf^ERHAPS an oomeak, one of those long boats built b} the Yukon Indians, covered with walrus hide two inches thick, and capable of carrying twelve persons, would be as comfortable a vessel in which to navigate the great Yukon as any. For from Dawson some hundreds of miles below, the river is very shallow, and last winter some of the lightest draft steamers, drawing but three feet of water, were unable to ascend higher than Circle City. The river, encrusted with ice during eight mouths of the year, opens in June, first breaking at its headwaters, where the streams between the lakes rarely freeze. A month later the lower Yukon melts and though the ice blocks jam and pile here for a while, tearing down islands and building others, yet they finally succumb to the increasing heat of the recurring days, and presently the great sluggish, muddy stream is again serene and fluid and it spreads over broad lengths in its lazy way, so that at parts you may not see its f
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