Exploring the great YukonAn adventurous expedition down the great Yukon River, from its source in the British North-west Territory, to its mouth in the territory of Alaska . e many which penetrate thisfiat district contain the swiftest currents, while along themain banks there are numerous water-ways open at bothends with almost stagnant water in them. About threein the afternoon we passed a double log house on theright bank with two or three small log cacJies mountedhigh in the air on the corner posts, and two graves, allof which seemed new in construction, although the i)laoewas entirely des
Exploring the great YukonAn adventurous expedition down the great Yukon River, from its source in the British North-west Territory, to its mouth in the territory of Alaska . e many which penetrate thisfiat district contain the swiftest currents, while along themain banks there are numerous water-ways open at bothends with almost stagnant water in them. About threein the afternoon we passed a double log house on theright bank with two or three small log cacJies mountedhigh in the air on the corner posts, and two graves, allof which seemed new in construction, although the i)laoewas entirely deserted. Indian signs of all kinds nowbegan to appear as we approached the lower ramparts,although no Indians were seen. By noon the blue hillsol the ramparts were seen to our left, and by the middleof the afternoon, we could make out individual treesupon them, and athalf-jiast seven oclock we camped onthe last island in the great group of from two to tenthousand through which we had been threading our wayso long, with the upper gates of the lower ramparts irfull sight, about a mile or two distant. CHAPTER XI. THROUGH THE LOWER KAMPaRTS, AND THE END OF THERAFT INDIAN CACHE ON LOWER YUKON. EE, Y well defined indeedare the upper gates ofthe lower ramparts, andone enters them fromabove with a sudden-ness that recalls hischildish ideas of moun-tain ranges taken fromjuvenile geography-books, where they arerepresented as a closelyconnected series of tre-mendously steep peaks, with no outlying hills connect-ing them with the level valleys by gently rolling slopes,as nature has fortunately chosen to do ; this approachto the lower ramparts being one of the few lower termination is not by any means so well markedas after the rajDids at Senati s village are passed ; thereis a gradual lowering of the range, broken by many ab-rupt as well as gradual rises until the delta at the mouthof the river is reached, far beyond the point at whichany traveler has placed their we
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