. Alaska and its resources. ?^v»v vVTS-r^-/. ? -A^-^E In the Ramparts. bidarra, and we halted for repairs. On account of the extremeheat we now decided to travel by night and camp in the hottestpart of the day. Alonday, \otJi. — We entered, about three oclock in the after-noon, between high bluffs and hills rising perhaps fifteen hun-dred feet above the river, which here was exceedingly deepand rapid and not more than half a mile wide. The bendswere abrupt, and the absence of sunlight and the extreme quiet THE YUKON TERRITORY. 97 produced a feeling as if we had been travelling
. Alaska and its resources. ?^v»v vVTS-r^-/. ? -A^-^E In the Ramparts. bidarra, and we halted for repairs. On account of the extremeheat we now decided to travel by night and camp in the hottestpart of the day. Alonday, \otJi. — We entered, about three oclock in the after-noon, between high bluffs and hills rising perhaps fifteen hun-dred feet above the river, which here was exceedingly deepand rapid and not more than half a mile wide. The bendswere abrupt, and the absence of sunlight and the extreme quiet THE YUKON TERRITORY. 97 produced a feeling as if we had been travelling appropriate and expressive English name for these bluffs is the Ramparts. We were approaching the so-called Rapids of the Yukon, ofwhich we had heard so many stories. The Russians had pre-dicted that we should not be able to ascend them. The Indiansjoined in this expression of opinion, and had no end of storiesabout the velocity of the current and the difficulty experienced in
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