. Shores and Alps of Alaska . s,who were behind, twice went off at a tangent in adifferent direction from that we were taking, with-out giving any notice of their intention. Thesecond time, they got separated from us by a mile,and the two parties sat on the tops of two morainemounds making signals which, on account of thedistance, we could not understand. The only thingto be done was to exercise a little patience, andsoon the proud and stubborn Yakatats found it tobe a case of Mahomet and the mountain, and wereseen making their way across the glacier to joinus, annoyed possibly because they ha
. Shores and Alps of Alaska . s,who were behind, twice went off at a tangent in adifferent direction from that we were taking, with-out giving any notice of their intention. Thesecond time, they got separated from us by a mile,and the two parties sat on the tops of two morainemounds making signals which, on account of thedistance, we could not understand. The only thingto be done was to exercise a little patience, andsoon the proud and stubborn Yakatats found it tobe a case of Mahomet and the mountain, and wereseen making their way across the glacier to joinus, annoyed possibly because they had degeneratedfrom guides to mere porters. Meanwhile some of the party went prospectingfor the best route, as we were shut in and sur-rounded by badly crevassed portions of the had been making for the west flank of a rangeof hills which seemed the only obstacle to a clearview of- the base of St. Elias, which now com-menced to tower grandly overhead. This range wasnot over a mile distant now. The slopes looked JJWifc. Icy BayNORTH PACIFIC OCEAN A GLACIAL LAKE. 89 smooth; green, and grassy; the lower parts weretimbered. It seemed a forbidden paradise whichwe were never to reach. The Indians had keptconstantly exclaiming that they saw wild mountaingoats on it, which was quite impossible at thatdistance. All day we had been following whatseemed the line of junction of two glaciers, with aperceptible depression, as though a river were un-dermining it. Between us and this range lay whatappeared to be a rough ice-surface strewn withseracs or small icebergs, and lying lower than theglacier-surface. The searchers came back reportingthis to be a lake, and quite impassable. The iceterminated in steep cliffs. It was a lake coveredwith morsels broken from the glaciers. The onlvindications of the existence of water was the per-fectly flat arrangement of the pieces of ice, whichshowed they must be floating. Named it after thePresident of the Italian Geographical Society—Lake Casta
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