Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-03-19

---O-1 oy ndnlc, d IOchl pOllcer1hn stimulated by the citizens, took Q hand
 and recruits were slowly obtained Even then 1 could only obtain halt enough, at good stiff rates of course,
 and had to double packs (averagIng 100 pounds each) over the trail of nearly 100 miles as it proved.
 The 25th of May we got away, sever Indians and three white men, six of the l natives being packers and one, Robert the owner of the boat. On the recon mendation of some citizens who be heved in the horror of the average In dian for all legal papers I had huge contract drawn up, resple ndent with
 many colored seals and ribbons, and
 this they signed by touch of pen, while the United States District court inter preter read aloud it's contents with a solemnity equal to that given a death warrant. l still retain that page of le- gal ludlcrousnesS, and while admitting
 1t may have done me much good, yet I can only compare it with the verdict ot the frontier coroner's jury wherein, sitting on a mans body dragged from the rivers bed and riddled with bull lets, they concluded that the deceased had come to his death from drowning, caused by water pouring in through the bullet-holeS.
 So about noon of the 18th, with the American flag hanging from the peak,
 we got away in the beginning of wind
 and drizzling rainstorm that later made
 our first days trip one of the most un-
 pleasant of the whole journey. An en-
 thusiastic crowd of citizens lined the
 shore near the steamers dock, and as
 we paddled away down the channel
 gave us many hearty cheer and many
 warm wishes for our success.
 Let us now take nasty look at the
 little expedition as it started, the In
 dians being sufficiently described to pass
 them over till events call them up in
 detail. The commanding officer was
 the heaviest one of the party and made
 excellent ballast in the rear part of the
 canoe.
 The scientist of the expedition was
 Dr. c. Willard Hayes, representing also the U. S. Geological survey, through the courtesy of Major J. w. Powell, the head of that government buyeau. To
 Dr. Hayes also fell the photogra phic work in the main, as we'll as the topo- graphic or map-making. I had hoped to get professional photographer, and felt sure of success when MT. Lander kin, one from Juneau, made an applica- ton for the place. He was caught on the grand jury, having already been sworn in, but we both thought that mere bagatelle as an ob- stacle, but the Judge and District At torney thought otherwise. Both were willing enough, but there was nothing in the law (the Oregon code prevails here, by act of Congress ESQ far as it is practicable") that would allow it. The only excuse whatsoever was re of se- were sickness, attested under oath by physician.
 ''But suppose grand juror diesP" I asked the Judge.
 ''I could not excuse him from duty on that ground" he replied, slowly, shalz- ing his head. So Mir. Landerkin re- mained and Dr. Hayes did double duty Mark c. Russell was the only other white man in the party as we started, which l organized on the basis of all my previous expeditions, or just as few white men as possible, with natives to do about all the work of transportation, guiding, hunting, etc, etc, with which they are so familiart in heir own coun- try.
 The Indians were very hilarious, evil dently stimulated by the enthusiastic departure given us, and they showed their appreciation by squirting" fero- ciously every little while instead of settling down to steady work
 We stopped about ? o'clock in the afternoon in pretty little sheltered cove for lunch, and really enjoyed our selves for an half hour, protected from the beating rain. Robert impressed me with the fact that the tide was then out, and asked me to note that when it was in, not a landing place was to be found anywhere along the shore for probably stretches of many miles. In 8 bright green prairie of few acres in this ceaseleSs timber tract, and border ing the shore was picturesquely perched a Tahl1u town of ten houses, Ahk-kwan by name. It is not often a graveyard is the most cheerful part of a place, but here the only enIivenipg thing in a view of dismal green, rendered doubly doleful by the rain, was a bright red flag that fiuttered from high staff at the corner of a grave. I was told it indicated that that particular native had just recently died.
 About o'clock we swung around into the Tahku inlet, and our change of course, now allowed us to set sails. Along we bowled, wing and wing, the lce-cakes we had met at the mouth of