Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-06-11

' f'rlnS the boat over the trail, ana al { IOon, with cheers, they landed it on ! ne beach, having carried it across, up- 1 side down, on their shoulders. An
 hours terrific laundering from the glaciers was followed by the usual
 calm, when Nicolai gave the word to , start and in just six minutes their tent
 was down, all the material packed, the J boat launched and loaded, and the pad ding began at 4:25 as we shot out into
 the lake at the foot of the rapids Not ] a word was uttered except by Nicolai, ] who standing mp on the load in the stern gave all orders. The silence was ominous as each one paddled with his utmost strength; all eyes intently fixed on the 0lacier. Only little during our journey, in front of the fist glacier. Once clear, the Indians set ap the widest singing, freely adding cheers, and we shot by the second like lightning, clearing its lower entered the delta of the Copper, low. fiat and tiarshy and cut up by inter minable swift channels. It was dark when we camped for the last time on the trip on boggy quicksand island
 
 if we remained in one spot over a min ute. Our beds were made down in the mud and we remained awake and fought mosquitoes until we got away in the morning, the rain falling in tor rents. The middle of the forenoon we made the Indian village of Allanik and routed out lot of forlorn looking wet savages, who informed us that every body at the salmon canneries on the coast had gone to San Francisco, ex- cept some white men st one in the delta We started for this place after a nasty meal. The rain was terrible, and when we met little weasel swim ming toward our boat one memb Der was facetious enough % observe that it got into the channel to get out of the furi- ous rain. At f, stiff and cold. we got to the delta cannery. Duvall, an old Yukon miner in charge, turned him. self inside out" to make us comfortab ble and succeeded. There were two pros pectOrs here, Cloudman and Boswell, who most generously offered to take us to Eyak in their boat as soon as the wea ather would permit, for the two can neries there had not yet closed. That night I listened to one of the pleasant est duets of my life, the rain falling on a roof and the old ocean surf outside the bar.
 Duvall told me the old Eyak chief claimed his father had seen the upper glazier extend across the Copper river. the stream running under 1t, La grippe" had swep: this coast two win ters before, depopulating whole vl- lages, now abandoned and- rotti ng away. But his most astounding state ment was that he had seen a polar bear on the moraine of one of the glaciers just above the delta, and insisted that he could not be mistaken as to the ami mai. The 2Oth and 91st were hyper bOrean hurricanes and it was noon of the 22d before we got away with Cloud man and Boswell. We saw great hocks of ducks, geese, gulls, snipes, swans and blower on the flats and ad1a- cent waters, our course being just in- side the Copper river bar. At 6 we reached the Eyak rivers mouth. where there are fsh-houses belong ing to the canneries of Prince Williams sound, and learned the Nutchek steamer for Sltka would leave that day. We were just in time to be too late. The Eyak is a tide al- ternating river, so we waite1 until one b clock in the morning and took the flood tide up it. It was so high, how ever, with the recent rains that this lasted but an hour and we had to take to the oars, and at daybreak we passed into the lake at it's head, an hour and half seeing us across it to the upper fish houses, From here there are two tramways, facetiously said to be the