. Capt. J. D. Winchester's experience on a voyage from Lynn, Massachusetts, to San Francisco, Cal., and to the Alaskan gold fields .... k to the old shack again, andLepage went after my baggage and soon returned with was lying on my back, a pretty sick man. Lepage wasvery kind and tidy. He cleaned our shack and set thingsin order. How disappointed I was in not getting downthe river! I found that it would not do to lie there sick,so I got up and did the cooking, Lepage doing all the restof the work. I felt lonely, for all of my kind friends were gone, andstrangers had moved into their shac
. Capt. J. D. Winchester's experience on a voyage from Lynn, Massachusetts, to San Francisco, Cal., and to the Alaskan gold fields .... k to the old shack again, andLepage went after my baggage and soon returned with was lying on my back, a pretty sick man. Lepage wasvery kind and tidy. He cleaned our shack and set thingsin order. How disappointed I was in not getting downthe river! I found that it would not do to lie there sick,so I got up and did the cooking, Lepage doing all the restof the work. I felt lonely, for all of my kind friends were gone, andstrangers had moved into their shacks, >who were not soci-able, but kept to themselves. Dr. Dyer had gone up onMcAlpine creek, and with his rod expected to do somepretty good work. Two of his former party, havingmoved into the Jenny M. cabin, intended to build a boat togo down to St. Michaels when the river broke up, whichwould happen about the 20th of May. The Beavers had moved down to their boats. TheEclipse and Sunflower had gone, as had also the NorthStar people and Minneapolis. This latter was the boatthat Josie and Campbell were in and no one was left be-. LIGHT BEGINS TO DAWN. 219 hind but a few men to bring down the small boats ; so wehad no company and nothing to do but lie and wait forthe river to break up. A party of the Kyle that had been working up the Help Me Jack came down and took up their quartersin the Serenes cabin. They had boats to take down toArctic City, so they joined the waiting party. They hadsunk shafts sixty feet and found nothing, so now they werewaiting with the rest of us. Dorcross, the boomer of the Koyukuk, was a squawman. He made his living by going down to the mouth ofthe Koyukuk, and inducing the people he met there goingup the Yukon to go up the Koyukuk instead, by tellingthem stories of the fabulous wealth that Islj within thegold belt of the Koyukuk. He himself had a claim thathe would not take twenty thousand for. The Kyle partyhad fallen into his trap. They engaged him
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