CHAPTER VIII

YAKUTAT TO SITKA

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 Cape Edwardes—The ‘Pinta’—Safe back—Height of St. Elias 137

_MAPS_

COAST OF PART OF SOUTH-EASTERN ALASKA, SHOWING THE ST. ELIAS ALPS _To face p._ 1

THE SOUTHERN SLOPES OF MOUNT ST. ELIAS 〃 61

WITH SACK AND STOCK IN ALASKA