. Rod and gun. Lucky Scott Preparing to Leave with Dog Teams and Exploration Parties for Salmon River in Search of Gold. Ivory Traders journey with a small dory, a sledge,and dogs. It was twenty days beforeAve could get back to the ship, andthose on board thought we were lost,and spent the time in trying to reachus, but the ice kept them away. Wehad expected to get back to the shipin three or four days. The journeyashore had to be made over icethrough open spaces of water. Itwas twenty-six miles to the shore,and it took us from early in the morn-ing to nightfall. We had taken lis-kimos on boar
. Rod and gun. Lucky Scott Preparing to Leave with Dog Teams and Exploration Parties for Salmon River in Search of Gold. Ivory Traders journey with a small dory, a sledge,and dogs. It was twenty days beforeAve could get back to the ship, andthose on board thought we were lost,and spent the time in trying to reachus, but the ice kept them away. Wehad expected to get back to the shipin three or four days. The journeyashore had to be made over icethrough open spaces of water. Itwas twenty-six miles to the shore,and it took us from early in the morn-ing to nightfall. We had taken lis-kimos on board, and with us on thejourney to the shore were four ofthem, two men and two women. ?We found the country thereaboutwas inhabited by Eskimos, and wetraded a good deal with them, gettingmany furs and much ivory, and somevaluable whalebone. The biggestanimal in the region is the polar bear,and there are lots of duck on whichwe practically had to live. We spent the whole time ashorein prospecting along the banks of theSahiion River. The country provedto be of a gneiss and granite formationwhich gives a slim prospect
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