. Alaska and the Klondike. e river. In these long, early July days the sun stays with us untilnearly 10 oclock and returns before three, while its slant-ing rays seem to lighten the upper air the whole nightthrough. There is so much to interest and so much of daylightto improve that sleep comes only after repeated invita-tions and one is reminded of the expressive remark of areturning Yukoner who has been spending tehe winter inthe States, and whose husband awaits her at a genuine Bowery accent she speaks oi the unbrokendaylight of midsummer and adds that humankind are notthe only
. Alaska and the Klondike. e river. In these long, early July days the sun stays with us untilnearly 10 oclock and returns before three, while its slant-ing rays seem to lighten the upper air the whole nightthrough. There is so much to interest and so much of daylightto improve that sleep comes only after repeated invita-tions and one is reminded of the expressive remark of areturning Yukoner who has been spending tehe winter inthe States, and whose husband awaits her at a genuine Bowery accent she speaks oi the unbrokendaylight of midsummer and adds that humankind are notthe only ones inconvenienced on their first arrival byinability to sleep. The imported animals and fowls, too,seem at first to experience the same confusion of theorderly habits which prevail elsewhere, for, says she, there is no night and de very chickens, why dey walksdemselves to det. And just at this time not only is thesunlight almost constant, but during the suns short ab-sences the moon shines with an effulgeitce which seems. u D 34 ALASKA AND THE KLONDIKE never to have been observed in lower latitudes, and temptsthe man with the camera to try its effects upon the sensi-tised film in the middle of the night, with results whichare highly satisfactory as photographs, although they can-not be so successfully reproduced in half-tones. Midnight of July 7 finds us at Fort Selkirk on thebank of the Lewes River, upon which we have travelledfrom White Horse northwestward to the Pelly, whichhere comes in from the east and together wMth the Lewesmakes up the Yukon. Selkirk is an old Hudson Baytrading post and we are interested in it in passing becausewe are told that here are located the most successful farmsin the British Yukon. One farmer at this point is reportedto have made a clear profit of $3,000 during the past yearon his crops of hay and potatoes, for which he finds amarket in Dawson. His success is said to be encourag-ing others to seek their fortunes in agriculture at thispoint as
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