The Spirit of missions . s much totell of our journey from the Koyukukto Fort Yukon. It was uneventful. Theweather for a whole month has beenmost unusually warm, varying from10 degrees above to 10 degrees belowzero, with an occasional drop to 20 de-grees below. The skies have been over-cast almost continually, land when wehave heavy skies at this time of yearthere is very little daylight and then a wind; clear heavens foran hour or two and a drop in the ther-mometer; then clouds and snow and arise; so the weather has gone for a solidmonth past. Our chief difficulty has beenin follo
The Spirit of missions . s much totell of our journey from the Koyukukto Fort Yukon. It was uneventful. Theweather for a whole month has beenmost unusually warm, varying from10 degrees above to 10 degrees belowzero, with an occasional drop to 20 de-grees below. The skies have been over-cast almost continually, land when wehave heavy skies at this time of yearthere is very little daylight and then a wind; clear heavens foran hour or two and a drop in the ther-mometer; then clouds and snow and arise; so the weather has gone for a solidmonth past. Our chief difficulty has beenin following trails. The fresh snow andthe drifting wind overlay and almost ob-literate the signs of former passage, andthe chief difficulty in all that journey was the ceaseless peering ahead to dis-cern the faint indentations in the snow;hard enough at noon and becoming hope-less as the half-light fades to a quarterlight. II THE soft weather has opened up greatleads in all the rivers and thatmakes travelling more dangerous. So. THE HAPPIEST LITTLE CRIPPLE INALASKA A tubercular foot has been amputated withcomplete recovery swift are these currents that unlesssevere cold weather causes the ice to gainupon the water, the water will presentlywash away the ice and break out in greatblack holes and channels. Just now the Iseventy-five mile stretch through the (284) Mexico Notes 285 Yukon flats, from Fort Yukon to Circle,is especially bad, and I have always hadrather a nervous feeling about thatstretch, since my extraordinary escapeI three years ago. But the weather has1 changed to-night, and the fifty belowspell that everyone has been crying out Ifor to tighten up the rivers and maketravelling safe, is even now upon us. Ihave just returned from holding eveningservice for the dozen or so white menhere, and I dropped in at the ther-mometer box on my way from the churchto the house and found the temperature47 degrees below. It was bitterly cold inthe badly-chinked new church at all fourof the
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