Alaska, its waters, land and life; an illustrated lecture . y-two milesLindeman. aH mouotonous, the lakes is much thewooded with a small growth ofthem barren and seamed withof the lakes, especially Marshmud have been brought down byshores are deep with muck. Italong, wild violets and red rosesgrass and wild onions on themiddle of the stream, for there isirritating consuming miasma,quitoes. Though bad here, theyAlaska, and on theflows into the Beringthem so numerous andescape from their at-ing the party withour camps there, menmaintain these firesThough the lowerlocality, yet they arenor so blo
Alaska, its waters, land and life; an illustrated lecture . y-two milesLindeman. aH mouotonous, the lakes is much thewooded with a small growth ofthem barren and seamed withof the lakes, especially Marshmud have been brought down byshores are deep with muck. Italong, wild violets and red rosesgrass and wild onions on themiddle of the stream, for there isirritating consuming miasma,quitoes. Though bad here, theyAlaska, and on theflows into the Beringthem so numerous andescape from their at-ing the party withour camps there, menmaintain these firesThough the lowerlocality, yet they arenor so blood-thirstycrepancy betweenvoracity on the Yukonabundantly repairedsmall black gnat, oneengines of torture everto act against thesand fly is also a dis- tinguished pest on the Yukon flats and appears to annoy the Indians as greatlythe whites. At White Horse Canyon the river increases its gait to ten miles an hour, plungesthrough narrow walls of black basalt and runs over sunken boulders in foaming rapids. The high koTusks and the waters of the Building Boats at Lake Bennett. So swift is the current at this place that the water washing the wall on the right, leaps up high against the rock and curls back and over with a foamy cap like a roller upon the ocean beach. It is dangerous to attempt to navigate these rapids, and foolhardy men who have done so have paid for their folly with their lives. There is a portage on the hill to the left and some one is constructing a cableway over this trail for the aid of travelers and for his own profit. When this is finished and when the hoist on the high lap of the Chilcoot Pass is working, when the ferry boats are plving the lakes on the mountain and the saw mill at Lake Bennett is buzzing out timber for boats, when all these facilities are in operation the trip from Dyea to Dawson will be plucked of some of its most exquisite terrors and most provoking obstacles. Rink Rapids with their black stack rocks in the water are easily
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