Exploring the great YukonAn adventurous expedition down the great Yukon River, from its source in the British North-west Territory, to its mouth in the territory of Alaska . ecurrences of long high ridges of rough bowlders oftrachyte with a splintery fracture. The latter felt likehot iron under the wet moccasins after walking on themand jumjoing from one to the other for awhile. Some ofthese great ridges of bowlders on the steep hillsides musthave been of quite recent origin, and from the size of the big rocks, oftenten or twelvefeet in diameter,I infer that theforce employedmust have been POS
Exploring the great YukonAn adventurous expedition down the great Yukon River, from its source in the British North-west Territory, to its mouth in the territory of Alaska . ecurrences of long high ridges of rough bowlders oftrachyte with a splintery fracture. The latter felt likehot iron under the wet moccasins after walking on themand jumjoing from one to the other for awhile. Some ofthese great ridges of bowlders on the steep hillsides musthave been of quite recent origin, and from the size of the big rocks, oftenten or twelvefeet in diameter,I infer that theforce employedmust have been POSITION OF THE FEET IN WALKING A LOG, eUOrmOUS, aud IAS PRACTICED BY THE CHILKAT INDIANS. , -, ?? count for it on the theory that ice had been an im-portant agent in the result. So recent were some ofthe ridges that trees thirtj^ and forty feet high wereembedded in the debris, and where they were notcut off and crushed by tlie action of the rocks they weregrowing as if nothing had happened, although half thelength of their trunks in some cases was beloAV the topsof the ridges. I hardly thought that any of the treescould be over forty or fifty years old. Where these. OVER THE MOUNTAIN PASS. «1 ridges of great bowlders were very wide one would beobliged to follow close beliind some Indian packeracquainted with the trail, which might easily be lostbefore re-entering the brush. That day I noticed that all my Indians, in crossinglogs over a stream, always turned the toes of both feet inthe same direction (to the right), although they kept thebody square to the front, or nearly so, and each foot passedthe other at every step, as in ordinary walking. Theadvantage to be gained was not obvious to the author;as the novice, in attempting it, feels much more unsafethan in walking over the log as usual. Nearing Camp5, we passed over two or three hundred yards of snowfrom three to fifteen feet deep. This days march of the10th of June brought us to the head of the Dayay riverat a place the Ind
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