Trailing and camping in Alaska . ouble, and she heard swearing according to kinds of maledictions were applied to the donkey,which had a good case of libel, for he reflected uponher moral character and endowed her with certainattributes of the cow. When he discovered thecamera girl within a few feet of him, the old pros-pector apologized by swearing he didnt know awoman was along. That effort was too much for him, however,for he slipped, fell and slid several feet, and thenhe did swear in earnest. The ice was an etherealblue, but not half so highly colored as was theatmosphere immed
Trailing and camping in Alaska . ouble, and she heard swearing according to kinds of maledictions were applied to the donkey,which had a good case of libel, for he reflected uponher moral character and endowed her with certainattributes of the cow. When he discovered thecamera girl within a few feet of him, the old pros-pector apologized by swearing he didnt know awoman was along. That effort was too much for him, however,for he slipped, fell and slid several feet, and thenhe did swear in earnest. The ice was an etherealblue, but not half so highly colored as was theatmosphere immediately surrounding that pros-pector. A picture of this scene would be incompletewithout a phonograph, she remarked as she walkedaway. All day we trudged on solid ice and jumped yawn-ing crevasses. We camped on the ice during thatshort August night, as it was too dark to travel. Thespring snow-slides and glacial hydraulics had de-posited huge boulders on this ice river, and they hadmelted large wells straight down. A few of those. \ Glacier Crevasse. Trailing and Camping in Alaska 39 wells were closed, or, like an inverted cone, hadgradually narrowed to a point and now were filledwith water. The rock that had formed this kindof a well had melted its way down, while the wellhad closed gradually behind it by freezing. Streamsof water poured into the apparently bottomless ones,and into some of those we dropped large rocks, butnever heard one strike bottom. The glacial hydraulic is caused by a pressure ofwater brought down beneath the ice, and forced upthrough some crack. When this occurs, gravel andsometimes large rocks are forced to the surface andare deposited in ridges along the cracks. Those of us who had sleeping bags managed tosecure a little sleep, but those without them werecompelled to walk to and fro in the cold wind andrain to keep warm. The next day we crossed the divide at 5,000 feetaltitude in a blinding snow storm. At this altitudeand under these conditions, ones hea
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