. Alaska and its resources. size, containing one large room, sepa-rated in the same way from a small one, in both of which workmenand their families lived. Each of them was surmounted with a 46 THE YUKON TERRITORY. turret pierced for guns, and in one of these were two antique, rusty,and almost useless six-pounders. The third side was occupiedby a low-studded building, about twenty feet long and ten wide,which we occupied; a shed, where fuel might be kept dry; thebath-house, and a shed used to cock in, and called by courtesy\.\\Q povdrnia, or kitchen. The front of the yard was closed in bya sto
. Alaska and its resources. size, containing one large room, sepa-rated in the same way from a small one, in both of which workmenand their families lived. Each of them was surmounted with a 46 THE YUKON TERRITORY. turret pierced for guns, and in one of these were two antique, rusty,and almost useless six-pounders. The third side was occupiedby a low-studded building, about twenty feet long and ten wide,which we occupied; a shed, where fuel might be kept dry; thebath-house, and a shed used to cock in, and called by courtesy\.\\Q povdrnia, or kitchen. The front of the yard was closed in bya stockade about sixteen feet high, of pointed logs set upright inthe ground, and was provided with a large gate. The houseswere of round logs; the roofs, nearly flat and covered with earth,could be reached by means of steps provided for the windows were all of the parchment, or seal intestines, beforementioned, and the buildings were warmed by the universalpeechkas, the seams of the walls being calked with dry Interior of Fort Derabin, from above. Directly across from the fort, which faces the river, is a lowisland, less than a mile long. The river is narrow here, beingby exact measurement only a mile and a half wide. The lati-tude of the fort is nearly 64° 42 north, and the longitude 157° 54west. The variation of the compass is nearly thirty-two degreesto the eastward. A mile and a furlong east-northeast is a small creek, a ragingtorrent in the spring, called Klat-kakhdine hy the Indians, literally Stop-a-bit River. Half a mile west-southwest is the mouth of THE YUKON TERRITORY. 47 the Nulato River, from which the post takes its name, though itwas originally called Fort Derabin, from its builder and firstbidarshik. Between these two streams the land is low, graduallyrising from the river into low hills, and for the most part denselywooded. A short distance from its mouth the Nulato River
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