Alaska, its waters, land and life; an illustrated lecture . Aion^ tlif Cour: bowlders and is at times broken and little camps are upon the Camp, famed amongst the Chilkootsas the spot where man} mountain sheepwere killed, is 1,200 feet above tidewaterand has several frame buildings whereyou may get a rough meal for a dollarand sleep under shelter for a dollar and ahalf Stone HouFe, at the end of thetimber line, istwo miles fur-ther on over asteep and muddytrail, and is thenext campingplace. It is a bigjutting of rockon the mountainaffording a sortof cove shelterfro
Alaska, its waters, land and life; an illustrated lecture . Aion^ tlif Cour: bowlders and is at times broken and little camps are upon the Camp, famed amongst the Chilkootsas the spot where man} mountain sheepwere killed, is 1,200 feet above tidewaterand has several frame buildings whereyou may get a rough meal for a dollarand sleep under shelter for a dollar and ahalf Stone HouFe, at the end of thetimber line, istwo miles fur-ther on over asteep and muddytrail, and is thenext campingplace. It is a bigjutting of rockon the mountainaffording a sortof cove shelterfrom the strongsea winds whichstrike with theirfull force againsttlie mountains face. The trail is somewhat easier for the next two miles at tiie end ofwhich the camping place called the Scales is reached ; here it was that the packers usedto weigh their packs, which they carried over the pass for hire, charging ten cents perpound of burden. The rush of Klondikers has raised this price very much, and I haveknown as high as forty cents per pound to be charged
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