. Alaska and the Klondike . an mission at Ikogmute, a little fartherup, but we pass it in the night without stopping. The littlechurch at Andraefski with its pale blue and yellow towersand domes and crosses, a bit of Byzantine architecture setdown on a grassy slope of a lonesome, treeless hillside,beside the rolling Yukon, with no other sign of humanhabitation in sight except a few Indian huts half a mileaway, was a curious introduction to the lingering remnantsof the work of Russias Holy Synod. We do not stop, butare carried on toward the sea, where we find, all along thecoast, frequent remin
. Alaska and the Klondike . an mission at Ikogmute, a little fartherup, but we pass it in the night without stopping. The littlechurch at Andraefski with its pale blue and yellow towersand domes and crosses, a bit of Byzantine architecture setdown on a grassy slope of a lonesome, treeless hillside,beside the rolling Yukon, with no other sign of humanhabitation in sight except a few Indian huts half a mileaway, was a curious introduction to the lingering remnantsof the work of Russias Holy Synod. We do not stop, butare carried on toward the sea, where we find, all along thecoast, frequent reminders of the great missionary zeal of THROUGH THE HEART OF ALASKA 125 the Greek Church and its stubborn persistence. And thatwas really as far as Russias occupation went; her invasionof the interior of her American possessions seldom reachedfar from the seashore. The morning of July 27 brought us to the mouth of theYukon and the shores of Bering Sea, and we find that wehave travelled the great artery of the north, from White. Indian School at Holy Cross Mission Horse to the ocean for a distance of nearly 2,000 appears, too, that when we shall have reached , sixty miles from the mouth of the river, and theonly harbour available for our river boat on that shoreof Bering Sea, we shall have travelled 1,600 miles fromDawson. VIPHASES OF LIFE ON BERING SEA SEVENTY-FIVE miles from where the waters of theYukon mingle with the restless tides of Bering Sea,they begin to stray out over the low, flat wastes thatborder that part of the sea known as Norton Sound. Thebanks drop low and the tawny floods of the Yukon deltaspread farther and farther till, almost without knowingjust where, the traveller emerges from the long channelof the great river, cut nearly 2,000 miles through the heartof Alaska, out into the waters of the western sea. TheYukon, like the ancient Nile in at least one particular, hasseven mouths, the most southerly of which is ninety milesby sea-coast measure
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