Glimpses of sunshine and shade in the far North; or, My travels in the land of the midnight sun . hat we were on the Roanoke prior toour departure were spent much as the previous ten dayswere. The steam tug, The Saint Michael, took us toand fro, we took quite an interest watching the variousvessels constantly coming and going on St. MichaelsBay, and had another delightful little visit on thewhaler. There was a great rush just at this time for CapeNome, and every boat that came down the river wascrowded with passengers en route to the new gold fields. At twelve oclock, midnight, July 4th, the w
Glimpses of sunshine and shade in the far North; or, My travels in the land of the midnight sun . hat we were on the Roanoke prior toour departure were spent much as the previous ten dayswere. The steam tug, The Saint Michael, took us toand fro, we took quite an interest watching the variousvessels constantly coming and going on St. MichaelsBay, and had another delightful little visit on thewhaler. There was a great rush just at this time for CapeNome, and every boat that came down the river wascrowded with passengers en route to the new gold fields. At twelve oclock, midnight, July 4th, the whistlefrom the different vessels were blown all over the sea,shouts were heard from one ship to another, and the jollypatriotic songs rang out over the deep, blue sea in cele-bration of that day when we first had our independence. One especially pleasant evening we saw a fine mirageof the mountains from one thousand to fifteen hundredmiles away, so clear was the atmosphere. At nine p. m. Thursday, July 6th, we embarked onour voyage which took us eleven days to sail from to 5 = pron) St. Michael to Dutch Harbor. THE evening we left Saint Michael it had beencool and cloudy all day but towards evening ithad cleared and we had fair sailing that night,though it was quite foggy toward dawn andduring the early morn, which lessened our speed to tenmiles an hour. Later the morning was lovely, the sea calmand beautiful, the deep blue green of which contrastedwith the white foam of the water made by the motion ofthe ship, and our ship fairly flew in the bright sun-shine. A day or two before we left Saint Michael therewere a number of persons brought on board the Roanokewho were either sick or crippled and the governmentwas sending them to their homes One was so weak hewas helpless—he had suffered with scurvy until hisphysical powers were almost paralyzed and he was car-ried aboard the ship—the next day he died and therewas a midnight burial. A short service was he
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