. Capt. J. D. Winchester's experience on a voyage from Lynn, Massachusetts, to San Francisco, Cal., and to the Alaskan gold fields .... eamer and had got landon each side of them on the river, they broke up all dis-cipline and became unmanageable—his brother as bad asthe rest. But, said he, lam skipper of this boat,and I will never cast you off. One night, as we were looking for a place to anchor, itwas getting quite dark, and the pilots thought it best tofollow the channel across to the other bank and get ananchorage there. There was quite a high mountain, andland loomed up deceivingly, so th
. Capt. J. D. Winchester's experience on a voyage from Lynn, Massachusetts, to San Francisco, Cal., and to the Alaskan gold fields .... eamer and had got landon each side of them on the river, they broke up all dis-cipline and became unmanageable—his brother as bad asthe rest. But, said he, lam skipper of this boat,and I will never cast you off. One night, as we were looking for a place to anchor, itwas getting quite dark, and the pilots thought it best tofollow the channel across to the other bank and get ananchorage there. There was quite a high mountain, andland loomed up deceivingly, so they misjudged the land-mark and plunked the boat on to a sand bar, where shelay across the current, and the harder we worked her thefarther she 2rot on. We worked all night, but it was no use. The captainsaid he would lighten her, and by the time he got readythe river had lowered so that they could wade around theboat. She was hard and fast, and they could not get theweight off quick enough to float her. We rowed on shorewith the old Mary Ann, where I stayed all day and did thecooking. There were plenty of gnats, but I kept up a. THE FLORENCE ON A SAND-BAI ON THE WAY TO ARCTIC CITY. 185 smoke that drove them away, and after the boys hadworked three days helping to discharge the Florence, Isaw that she would not float again for some time. Magrath told me that the river might not rise enoughthat fall to float her, and they were fitting out their launch,putting a boiler and engine on her, in case the Florencedid not float. So I called the boys in and told them Ithought the} had done work enough to pay for our tow,and we hauled in the old Mary Ann, gave her a s^oodwashing out, packed our goods in again, and on the nextmorning earl} crossed the river under the stern of the Flor-ence, and soon had the tow-rope again in operation, drag-ging our boat up the river. Magrath told us that we hadone hundred and eighty miles to go, that when we got toHughes bar—a certain landmark—we wou
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