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 . articles of ourequipment, which took flight in the furious wind. Mostexasperating of all, it quickly determined us to breakcamp, and in less than half an hour we had all of oureffects stored on the vessel, and were pulling off thebeach, when just as our sail was spread the wind dieddown to a zephyr hardly sufficient to keep away themosquitoes. At 7 oclock the lake was as quiet as canbe imagined, and after remaining almost
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 . articles of ourequipment, which took flight in the furious wind. Mostexasperating of all, it quickly determined us to breakcamp, and in less than half an hour we had all of oureffects stored on the vessel, and were pulling off thebeach, when just as our sail was spread the wind dieddown to a zephyr hardly sufficient to keep away themosquitoes. At 7 oclock the lake was as quiet as canbe imagined, and after remaining almost motionless foianother hour we pulled into the steep bank, made ourbeds on the slanting declivity at a place where it wasImpossible to pitch a tent, and went to sleep only to be 18-1 ALONG ALASKAS GREAT RIVER. awakened at night by showers of rain falling upon ourupturned faces. We congratulated ourselves that wewere in a place where the drainage was good. In the shallow water near the shores of Lake Kluk-tassi, especially where a little bar of pretty white sandput out into the banks of glacier mud, one could alwaysfind innumerable shoals of small graylings not over an. OUTLET OF LAKE Butte of the Hancock Hills (on the right). inch in length, and our Indians immediately improviseda mosquito bar into a fish net, catching hundreds of thelittle fellows, which were used so successfully as baitwith the larger fish of the lake that we finally thoughtthe end justified the means. Instead of dying down as we spread sail early in themorning of the 9th, the wind actually freshened, upsettingall our prognostications, and sending us along at a rate that DOWN THE RIVER TO SELKIRK. 186 allowed us to enter the river early in the forenoon, andI doubt if the besiegers of a fortress ever saw its flag godown with more satisfaction than we saw the rude wall-tent sail come down forever, and left behind us the mosttedious and uncertain method of navigation an explorerwas ever called
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