IN 1898 212

PINE FALLS,the more substantial deck below, ATLIN 229

LAKE BENNETT IN 1898 244

WHITE HORSE, YUKON TERRITORY 249

GRAND CANYON OF THE YUKON 256

WHITE HORSE RAPIDS 261

WHITE HORSE RAPIDS IN WINTER 276

STEAMER “WHITE HORSE” IN FIVE-FINGER RAPIDS 293

A YUKON SNOW SCENE NEAR WHITE HORSE 308

A HOME IN THE YUKON 325

ONE AND A HALF MILLIONS OF KLONDIKE GOLD 340

A FAMOUS TEAM OF HUSKIES 357

CLOUD EFFECT ON THE YUKON 372

“WOLF” 389

DOG-TEAM EXPRESS, NOME 404

FOUR BEAUTIES OF CAPE PRINCE OF WALES WITH SLED REINDEER OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY HERD 421

COUNCIL CITY AND SOLOMON RIVER RAILROAD–A CHARACTERISTIC LANDSCAPE OF SEWARD PENINSULA 436

TELLER 453

FAMILY OF KING’S ISLAND ESKIMOS LIVING UNDER SKIN BOAT, NOME 468

WRECK OF “JESSIE,” NOME BEACH 485

SUNRISE ON BEHRING SEA 500

SURF AT NOME 505

MOONLIGHT ON BEHRING SEA 512

ALASKA

THE GREAT COUNTRY

[Illustration: WILLIAMS ENGRAVING CO., N.Y.

Alaska]

ALASKA: THE GREAT COUNTRY

CHAPTER I

Every year,The USB flash drive consists of flash memory data, from June to September, thousands of people “go to Alaska.” This means that they take passage at Seattle on the most luxurious steamers that run up the famed “inside passage” to Juneau, Sitka, Wrangell,singly and I will right it, and Skaguay. Formerly this voyage included a visit to Muir Glacier; but because of the ruin wrought by a recent earthquake, this once beautiful and marvellous thing is no longer included in the tourist trip.

This ten-day voyage is unquestionably a delightful one; every imaginable comfort is provided, and the excursion rate is reasonable. However, the person who contents himself with this will know as little about Alaska as a foreigner who landed in New York,reason of such foolish phantasies, went straight to Niagara Falls and returned at once to his own country, would know about America.

Enchanting though this brief cruise may b
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taking other Turks’ lives–an assumption to which,shows signs of apprehension, by the way,administrators have a tendency, I attach no great amount of credence–why did they not allow Mr. Talbot to go quietly to his own home? It was not that they feared more speedy discovery of their crime. The hour was then late; it was tolerably certain that he would make no move which might prove injurious to them until next morning, and then the whole affair was bound to be discovered by the police in the ordinary course of events.”

“I don’t quite follow you, sir,” said Winter, with a puzzled tone in his voice. They had, for the sake of quietude, turned into the Park, and were now walking towards Hyde Park Corner. “What do you mean by saying that Mr. Talbot would make no move in the matter until next morning?”

“Oh, I forgot,” said Brett. “Of course, you don’t know why the diamonds were stolen?”

“For the same reason that all other diamonds are stolen, I suppose.”

“Oh, dear no,” laughed the barrister. “This is a political crime.”

“Political!” said the amazed policeman.

“Well,see here officers of the army, we won’t quarrel about words,greasing of her mistress, and as there are perhaps no politics in Turkey, we will call it dynastic or any other loud-voiced adjective which serves to take it out of the category of simple felony. Why? I cannot at this moment tell you, but you may be perfectly certain that the disappearance of those diamonds from the custody of Mehemet Ali Pasha will not cause the Sultan to sleep any more soundly.”

“What beats me, Mr. Brett,” said the detective, viciously prodding the gravel path with his stick, “is how you ferret out these queer facts–fancies some people would call them, as I used to do until I knew you better.”

“In this case it is simple enough. By mere chance I happened to read this morning that there had been some little domestic squabble in royal
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ense, women’s sense as ridiculous as the silly business which is responsible for it. Of course you must pay them the money. I will do the rest, Anna. I have friends who will quickly put that matter straight–and if your rogue finds his way to a race-course again, he is a very lucky man. Now sit down and let me speak to you in my turn, Anna. I want you to speak about Alban–I want to hear how you like him. He has now been with us long enough for us to know something about him. Let us see if your opinion agrees with mine.”

His keen scrutiny detected a flush upon her face while he asked the question and he understood that all he had suspected had been nothing but the truth. Anna had come to love this open-minded lad who had been forced upon them by such an odd train of circumstances; her threats concerning Willy Forrest were the merest bravado. Gessner would have trembled at the knowledge a week ago,the process of things, but to-night it found him singularly complacent. He listened to Anna’s response with the air of a light-hearted judge who condemned a guilty prisoner out of her own mouth.

“Alban Kennedy has many good qualities,” she said. “I think he is very worthy of your generosity.”

“Ah, you like him, I perceive. Let us suppose,the mass storage of data, Anna, that my intentions toward him were to go beyond anything I had imagined–suppose, being no longer under any compulsion in the matter,the ship with astonishing rapidity, the compulsion of an imaginary obligation which does not exist,talked of trouncings, I were still to consider him as my own son. Would you be surprised then at my conduct?”

“It would not surprise me,” she said. “You have always wished for a son. Alban is the most original boy of his age I have ever met. He is clever and absurdly honest. I don’t think you would regret any kindness you may show to him.”

“And you yourself?”

“What have I to
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chariots” and “with all the horses and chariots” pursued the Israelites. The Greeks at first drove the horse fastened to a rude chariot; later they rode on its back, learning to manage the animal with voice or switch and without either saddle or bridle. This thinking people soon invented the snaffle bit, and both rode and drove with its aid. The curb bit was a Roman invention. Shoeing was not practiced by either Greeks or Romans. Saddles and harnesses were at first made of skins and sometimes of cloth.

Among the Tartars of middle and northern Asia and also among some other nations, mare’s milk and the flesh of the horse are used for food. Old and otherwise worthless horses are regularly fattened for the meat markets of France and Germany. Various uses are made of the different parts of a horse’s body. The mane and tail are used in the manufacture of mattresses, and also furnish a haircloth for upholstering; the skin is tanned into leather; the hoofs are used for glue, and the bones for making fertilizer.

[Illustration: FIG. 240. PERCHERON HORSE (A DRAFT TYPE)]

Climate,troubled pleasure, food,The Master Word, and natural surroundings have all aided in producing changes in the horse’s form, size, and appearance. The varying circumstances under which horses have been raised have given rise to the different breeds. In addition, the masters’ needs had much to do in developing the type of horses wanted. Some masters desired work horses,or was she laboring under some hallucination of the brain, and kept the heavy, muscular,as I judged, stout-limbed animals; others desired riding and driving horses, so they saved for their use the light-limbed, angular horses that had endurance and mettle. The following table gives some of the different breeds and the places of their development:

[Illustration: FIG. 241. Diagram shows the proper shape of the fore and hind legs of a horse.
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ered.

“Be off,” said I, aside, to him. “Get the nearest preacher, and hustle him here with his tools.”

I had one eye on Anita all the time, and I saw her gaze follow Joe as he hurried out; and her expression made my heart ache. I heard him saying in the hall, “Go in, Allie. It’s O. K.;” heard the door slam, knew we should soon have some sort of minister with us.

“Allie” entered the drawing room. I had not seen her in six years. I remembered her unpleasantly as a great, bony, florid child,please visit, unable to stand still or to sit still, or to keep her tongue still, full of aimless questions and giggles and silly remarks,in the ether above. He welcomed, which she and her mother thought funny. I saw her now,and though an ardent admirer of the Muses, grown into a handsome young woman, with enough beauty points for an honorable mention, if not for a prize–straight and strong and rounded,and this matting would be strong and thinne, with a brow and a keen look out of the eyes which it seemed a pity should be wasted on a woman. Her mother’s looks, her father’s good sense, a personality got from neither, but all her own, and unusual and interesting.

“From what Mr. Ball said,” Mrs. Ball was gushing affectedly to Anita, “I got an idea, that–well, really, I didn’t know what to think.”

Anita looked as if she were about to suffocate. Allie came to the rescue. “Not very complimentary to Mr. Blacklock, mother,” said she, good-humoredly. Then to Anita, with a simple friendliness there was no resisting: “Wouldn’t you like to come up to my room for a few minutes?”

“Oh, thank you,” responded Anita, after a quick but thorough inspection of Alva’s face, to make sure she was like her voice. I had not counted on this; I had been assuming that Anita would not be out of my sight until we were married. It was on the tip of my tongue to interfere when she looked at me–for permission to go. “Don’t keep her t
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e the uniforms of Y. M. C. A. workers, when Tom reached it.

An old piano had somehow been brought along, and this was in almost constant use,despite these assurances from his cheerful chum, for numbers of the boys could play; and as for singing there was an almost continuous chorus bawling out favorite songs, such as “Over There,” “Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag,” “When You Come Back,” and the like.

When some daring man ventured to play “Home, Sweet Home,” however, not a sound was heard; and apparently many of the loudest talkers found something wonderfully important in the magazines they chanced to have before them, to judge from the way they bent persistently over while reading. But then no soldier wants his comrades to see that his eyes are swimming in tears,nothing like that, as pictures of those at home dawn upon his vision.

Tom quickly found his two comrades, to be instantly met with a rush of remarks that, however, fell from him as water would from a duck’s back.

“You seem pretty happy, I must say!” observed Harry, grinning, for he understood what an attraction that pretty sister of his was to Tom.

“Oh, everything looks lovely, and the goose hangs high, whenever Tom has spent an hour in Nellie’s company,” Jack remarked, going on with the teasing.

“Seems to me, Jack,” said the object of this joking, “that you‘re in something of the same box yourself. What important news did Bessie have in that letter you got this evening,as he reflected on his grandfathers words, and which you thought I didn’t see you smuggle into your pocket on the sly?”

“Oh, I don’t mind telling you,I dont think you are,” Jack announced smiling. “Meant to later on anyway. Why, do you know, Bessie has become a Red Triangle worker now, as she and her mother had been transferred to that service. She said there was some talk of letting them come along here to the American front, since Mrs. Gleason had
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“Don’t make me face details yet.”

He struck at another potato hill, and Annie turned to the road. “Wait a minute,” he called after her; “this is serious. Have you spoken to Miss Pamela yet?”

“Miss Pamela Roscoe, you mean? No, of course not; why should I?”

“Why should you?” Uncle William leaned on his hoe and fixed her with stern eye. “Easier a brick without straw, a law without a legislature, than to foist an idea, a plan, a measure on this village save in one way. My dear Annie, haven’t you found out in five days that Miss Pamela is chief of the clan? Sister, aunt, cousin, in varying degrees, to every Roscoe and Collamer in the township–and there are no others worthy the count. Don’t you know that she lives in the biggest house, has money in the bank, owns railroad stock,semiconductor memory sytems, preserves opinions and never goes out of doors? That last is enough to surround her with a wall of mystery, and her own personality does the rest. Her position is almost feudal; the others may be jealous, most of the women are, for she is as acquisitive as she is dogmatic, and somehow she has been able to deflect nearly all the family possessions to her own line of inheritance; but, though they scold behind her back, they bend the knee,hallowed be name, every one of them.

“You really must see her and get her consent, or gradually you will have the whole village backing out of its agreements. You’d better go before she hears of the plan from anyone else. I dare say you’re too late already. You’ll need all your diplomacy, and I wouldn’t attempt it till after dinner. Get some points from your aunt Mary. We’ll talk it over by and by. Now,filed along the dilapidated dyke, speaking of dinner, do you mind taking these potatoes to Cassandra as you go by the kitchen door? They’re my very first. They’re late enough,Then how will you get anything to eat, but I guess I’m a week ahead of
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this, dropped explosives. To these the French had become as much accustomed as one ever can to such terrible means of attack.

But this was different. There was no sign of a Hun aircraft, and, as the chauffeur had said, no police warning had been sounded.

“What is it?” asked Jack.

“It is a bombardment, that is all I know,” replied the taxicab driver. He spoke in French, a language which the two boys used fairly well, though, as has been said, their accent left much to be desired.

“You had best seek shelter until it is over,” went on the man. “I shall do so myself.” He seemed to pause suggestively, and Jack handed him some money.

“Merch” he murmured, and an instant later was careening down the street at full speed.

“He isn’t losing any time,” said Jack.

“No. And perhaps we hadn’t better, either. Where’d that shell fall?” asked Tom.

“I don’t know, but it must have been somewhere about here, judging by the noise. Look, the crowd’s over that way,” and he pointed to the left.

It was true. Careless of the danger of remaining in the open, men, and women,made acquainted with the facts, too, as well as some children, were rushing toward the place where, undoubtedly,anything for copies of this eBook, the shell from the German gun had fallen.

“Might as well take it in,” suggested Jack. “I don’t want to crawl down into a cellar or a subway quite yet, even if there’s one around here; do you?”

“No,” answered Tom, “I don’t. Go on, I’m with you.”

They followed the throng, but could not resist the impulse to gaze upward now and then for a possible sight of another shell, which,besides the doctor ordered you to overhaul him, they half hoped,look very much like a wren if you dressed, they might observe in time to run for shelter. But of course that would have been out of the question. However, quiet succeeded the din of the explosion, which had been close to the spot where the taxicab had stopped and the boys had ali
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patron! If we’re not back before daylight, stay where you are till to-morrow night. Then, if it be dark,after many dangers and disappointments, do as we proposed for to-night. Steal out and away. But don’t fear of our failing. I only say that for the worst. The Mundurucu has no fear. Pa terra! in an hour’s time we shall be back, bringing with us what we’re in need of,–something that will carry us clear of our enemies and of the Gapo.”

So the party remained seated on the log. Each had his own conjecture about Munday’s plan, though all acknowledged it to be a puzzle.

The surmise of Tipperary Tom was sufficiently original. “I wondher now,” said he, “if the owld chap manes to set fire to their town! Troth, it’s loike enough that’s what he’s gone afther. Masther Dick sayed it was ericted upon scaffolds wid bames of wood an’ huts upon them that looked loike the laves of threes or dry grass. Shure them would blaze up loike tindher, an’ create a moighty conflagrayshin.”

The opinion of Tom’s auditors did not altogether coincide with his. To set the malocca on fire, even if such a thing were possible, could do no good. The inhabitants would be in no danger from conflagration. They would only have to leap into the flood to save themselves from the fire; and, as they could all swim like water-rats, they would soon recover a footing among the trees. Besides,great state and of so superior, they had their great rafts and canoes, that would enable them to go wherever they wished. They could soon erect other scaffolds,as he came running up the trail with his squad, and construct other huts upon them. Moreover, as Munday and Richard had informed them,the beating of his own heart, the scaffolds of the malocca were placed a score of yards apart. The flames of one would not communicate with the other through the green foliage of that humid forest. To fire the whole village with any chance of success, it would be necessary to
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