. Picturesque Alaska : a journal of a tour among the mountains, seas and islands of the Northwest, from San Francisco to Sitka. ater of the channel, andthe air was several degrees warmer thanwhen we started from Chilkat. We stoodat our open windows and watched thescenes moving slowly by, with no need ofextra protection on our heads or Schwatka speaks of the scen-ery in Lynn Channel as among the great-est wonders of our wonderland. At six oclock p. m. we arrive at theentrance of Glacier Bay. Up the westernshore leads the icy range of Mount Alps. They resemble in co
. Picturesque Alaska : a journal of a tour among the mountains, seas and islands of the Northwest, from San Francisco to Sitka. ater of the channel, andthe air was several degrees warmer thanwhen we started from Chilkat. We stoodat our open windows and watched thescenes moving slowly by, with no need ofextra protection on our heads or Schwatka speaks of the scen-ery in Lynn Channel as among the great-est wonders of our wonderland. At six oclock p. m. we arrive at theentrance of Glacier Bay. Up the westernshore leads the icy range of Mount Alps. They resemble in configura-tion the Olympian Mountains in Washing-ton Territory, but are much more icy, cold,and grand. The air grew misty, and thenight came on dark and rainy. The Indian boys from Metlahkatlah, un-der Dr. Jacksons care, came into the sa-loon and gave us a sacred concert. Theysing remarkably well. One accompaniedthe rest upon the piano. Indians, at leastthese natives of the northwest, can learnto sing, as these Metlahkatlah boys haveproved to us. May 4. Our ship had never plied thesewaters before, and Captain Hunter told us. w I—* o o I—I w THE NEW VUHK [PUBLIC ARY 3NS. MUIR GLACIER. 157 frankly that he was fearful of the conse-quences of taking her into the icy watersof Glazier Bay, as, at the time, it was morethan usually flooded with floating ice andsmall icebergs. At Juneau he had learnedof the recent fall of an immense sectionof ice along the whole face of the MuirGlacier. It came down with terrific thun-ders, dashing itself into fragments as itstruck the waters of the bay, and caus-ing the rise of a gigantic wave to sweepalong the shore to the almost entire de-struction of an Indian encampment. OneIndian only made his escape by clinging tothe limbs and body of a cedar-tree, againstwhich he was thrown by the force of thewave. We saw the blue waters flecked andfretted with myriad shapes of floating ice,of mingled white and emerald, — and thelong line of icy mountains le
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