With Sack and Stock in Alaska

Getting canoes and men—A false start—Icy Bay—Torrents of rain—On march—The Yahkhtze-tah-heen—A wet camp—More wading—Our forces—Camp on the glacier—Across the ice—The Chaix Hills 37

A long lie—Men return to the beach—We make a cache—Shifting camp—The Libbey Glacier—The south-east face of St. Elias—Right-about-turn—Lake Castani—The Guyot Glacier—Reappearance...

Across the Tyndall Glacier—Ptarmigan—Another bear—The Daisy and Coal Glaciers—A catastrophe—The others go on—Alone with Billy and Jimmy—More geese—The blue bear—Marmot hunting 81

Ptarmigan with a revolver—Back to Camp G—The others return—Their narrative—The men turn up again—We start down—A wasp’s nest—Mosquitoes—Wading extraordinary—We leave Icy Bay—A l...

Curio-hunting—Small plover—W. goes down on the ‘Active’—Siwash dogs—A great potlatch—Cricket under difficulties—No signs of the ‘Alpha’—I determine to go down in a canoe—The whi...

Farewells—A drunken skipper—Cape Fairweather—Loss of our frying-pan—Mount Fairweather and its glaciers—Murphy’s Cove—Stuck at Cape Spencer—Salmon and sour-dough bread—We reach C...

On the twenty-fifth of April, 1888, I was playing golf on our little links at home, and had driven off for the Stile Hole, situated on the lawn-tennis ground, when I observed th...

As we were detained at Sitka for a fortnight, making preparations for the expedition, and waiting for W. to come up on the next boat, I may as well give some description of one...

_Wednesday, the 11th._—H. spent a large part of the day in interviewing the chief, ‘Billy Masterman,’ on the subject of canoes and men. We also engaged two white men who, with s...

_Thursday, the 19th._—We spent a comfortable night and indulged next morning in the luxury of a ‘long lie.’ About nine o’clock the men departed, going down stream along the edge...

_Thursday, the 26th._—A beautiful sunrise ushered in a splendid day, and we turned out at four o’clock. At 5.30 Ed., with Matthew and Mike, started down to bring up the stores l...

_Thursday, the 2nd._—In the odds and ends sack I had found an extra flannel shirt, and, fortified by this, was not much troubled by the cold, though I was not too warm in spite...

_Thursday and Friday, August the 9th and 10th._—We wandered about the two villages hunting curios, but without much result, though I got a rather neat model of the skin bidarky....

_Thursday, the 23rd._—Up at sunrise, the blankets dripping with dew. As the morning was perfectly lovely, and the mountains quite clear, I roused De Groff to photograph, and the...

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