. Touring Alaska and the Yellowstone . and the ice floeswhose iridescent colors rival those of the and then a tiny white sail marks the boat of asolitary Indian, making some harbor, whither youcannot guess, for no human beings appear to dwellin this region. Hundreds of wildly screaming sea-gulls flutter about the prow of our vessel. Atender, misty veil encircles the base of the distantmountains, and still the sun, as in his prime, smilesgloriously, and the huge icebergs gathering soclosely about our ship respond with dazzling Glacier is yet about twenty miles distant, an
. Touring Alaska and the Yellowstone . and the ice floeswhose iridescent colors rival those of the and then a tiny white sail marks the boat of asolitary Indian, making some harbor, whither youcannot guess, for no human beings appear to dwellin this region. Hundreds of wildly screaming sea-gulls flutter about the prow of our vessel. Atender, misty veil encircles the base of the distantmountains, and still the sun, as in his prime, smilesgloriously, and the huge icebergs gathering soclosely about our ship respond with dazzling Glacier is yet about twenty miles distant, andthere is some doubt of our coming into close prox-imity to one of the greatest wonders of these Arcticregions; for on the twentieth of last October, (1899)the wall of the glacier was so shattered by an earth-quake, that dense ice packs are constantly formingin its vicinity, preventing steamers from approach-ing nearer than six miles from its base. However,our gallant ship pushes forward with great deter-mination, and we live in Glacier Bay, Muir Glacier, Killisnoo 237 None of us can forget the experience of thesehours amid the massive floes which press so closelyto our sides. Varied and wonderful are the shapesof these frozen waters—picturesque, fairylike, grimand awful, their ranks close about us, and we seemto be in the power of the wizard who holds beneathhis spell all these castles and cathedrals; these rocksand trees; these monsters of the deep and creaturesof the land; transforming them into ice and group-ing them here as everlasting monuments of his in-vincible might. Here, set in a background of deepblue, are wonderful icy forests; here stand in im-movable majesty the obelisks of the Nile; and aboutthese grand and awful images sport sea-gulls andwild ducks, whole families often perching them-selves upon the floating masses and sailing serenelytowards the open sea. Our passengers are all closely observing the glit-tering pageant, and watching for the appearance
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