The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-07

much about talking myself. What we saw,
we saw, and rcserved our impressions for fu'
legged man one OF the boys said:
We'll, I wonder how he got overt.
,oo AT T Ths T,n lake So we NAV a man with q small
we asked him 4 he would take us across. lie
said no. We insisted that he should take us.
No, he said mot for a hundred dollars. /
$50 we crawlod into a tent and had some cot.
we did not And out how Il had got there From
Crater Lake to Long Lake Is three miles. The
t Whsn goes yes G DSo 70 tbe ACCESSION fss ss onO OF OF, small ma hills lis
OF the next one. II you are carrying a pack *
is very tiTosoms but part Of the wa. there is =
might havo been the bottom Of a lake at some
period which the geolosists call recent We
charged one cont q pound for freight and '%ne
disR' never sr, take ; lt the Z ferry e They Just keep on
will pay well, bccause the white men will pay
anything to save walking.
q little portage, perhaps q quarter of q mile.
At, Deep Lake We met a fellow coming in with
Scr 9Ss.' He lee said Sif no. b nip We ~ o aS TG gafe.s tSss So Ss
for S5 and leave II on tho other side. We took
1t. When we got, to the end Of Deep Lake we
where we were. We found some fellows who
milk punch with. some canned milk we had
brought along, 1t was very satisfactory to us
SnSk to o wh o0 ssid that At P tSsP had hsfG m ws . %st s SsqS
selfish people, who would neither permit them
to come into a tent nor sell them any coffee at
pie they had ever met, and they had lost all bu.
"Tho next morning we went Town to Linde.
man and met some people that we knew. We
met a man WHO was CARRYING a pack that he
s sSsi S we' si%sel sfix WsisSsa Ps9 pGsnd Ho t Gs w %s
IFS pounds when he started, he said, but had
P around. " He kept kept up pS with us se easily. 'na' PACK
AT. Lindeman everything was busy, al
though a.d i was " si late in the st season ;. 1t was sI the
believe there were about fifty boats
very, well made. but some were decidedly lops
sided. There was one CAME, light and fine,
e Would it lTSf sslS a H nSn s sniT' zoo ROp poans, T y Syu sfid
There were two galvanized iron boats made in
sections, which had been brought in with the
canoe. The average boat was about twenty
two feet long and four or Ave feet beam; and
would carry a tremendous load; Some fellows
me one from s27S to $3.50. Passage to Dawson
City was offered to me for 300. oakum and
Br1aoSahs %9 as high Gsfy as sss sio a p a5 1ae t People So were
very anxious to get off, and there was no oak
um to caulk the boats.
secured much less than three or four miles
twelve days to make a boat, although an expert
could probably make one in considerably less
time. 1t is easy enough to get together q party
man we helped launch two boats: They were
provisioned, before they were put into the lake.
q single cheer or a bit Of excitement. The men
were just minding their own business and
'' Prom snet the eI foot eo Of AK ak mir hind ns san' there Seqed is a
portage Of about. three quarters Of a mile to
Lake Bennett; There is a say mill at Lake
better there than at Lindcman. and not at all
scarce, so that q good many men ferry across
Lindeman and have their boats built at Ben
nett. From Lake Bennett. II one is a skilful
boatman,, it is not necessary to get out OF tho
boat until one reaches Dawson City, although
some DANGEROUS rapids have to be passed. The
great majority portage around these rapids,
but a good boatman can get through.
three miles and a fraction, but my impression
is that It is a good deal further. think the
s sn@mIt. / be %i,ss It + is ssf aisifTse miles, UP to fr tas
Dyea to Lindeman. l know l had been told
that from Dyea to Sheep Camp was fifteen miles,
sion that Lindeman was only eight miles
away; but II took us from 7 O'Clock in the
Lake. which Is still two and a half mi,cs from
Lindeman. I do not consider it at all q hard
s ssip to Il Ra e. not Il s sSsv h aSfk noshi aSa to S1 P" Ssv. Of q
make your distances. But deer hunters do .
deal harder climbing and think # is sport.
judge Of this, as i had never done hard climbing
and had had nothing to do with manual work.
juneau / have walked a mile at one stretch.
so l thought Il / could get over all right a wo-
man ma could do it. too; Just after we left
man. but she had been packing over the noun
and she thought nothing Of going from Pleas.
ant Camp to D,E,ea for provisions.
1T was at Pleasant Camp that we had our
most curious experience with Indian packers.
The bridge had been washed away, and we
couldn't get across. Some Indians had waded
arTnGa FIT thatr and NUR than tn
cents. We had low shoes and couldn't wade.
the river v and found a aiR log and d. got OF across across '0"s up
Most OF the trail is very desolate. The first
s got to o. Lake. @%of Iin sH%H AVE. s sDS T that ' %as os1SF9 m Ts
erahle little scrub evergreens. Over the sum,
init the miners have to pack STUFF to build their
Deep Lake on the timber Is fine n little way
back from the shore, Moss berries and blue.
great abundance. At Lindeman we saw some
men cutting up an OK which had probably done
anty sI pso and a ai eaFpe ehe 5Esii saw They Tb we're CAUSING %sins
was still steaming, and the heart was sticking
on some shrubbery. near by. They were going
the meat was so tough that It was worth that.
We got to Lindeman just in time to settle a
Chicago who had just got over the trail and the
packers who had brought their stuff through
hsd b Dyea na IN rs al hSaa. to 4, the rn S9EtPsc ss,S Sb bic,
their arrangement was at the rate Of 80 cents
q pound, and there, were over 5000 pounds
The Chicago men declared that they had con.
tracted to have tho whole outfit carried over
for $500. which was, OF course, over $500 lese
than the Indians demanded. We persuaded
them to compromise, and II was all fixed up.
"On the whole the trail was in much better
condition and was much less difficult than !
had believed. It to be. We saw n good many
men who had reached middle life and who had
done nothing but office work. and who were to-
forming. and for the great change In their man.
ner OF living. But a man accustomed TO hard
labor would not find 1t at all difficult. A great
many overwork themselves at the start trying
to do too much, and do not look after theft
personal comfort sufficiently in preparing their
food and selecting q place for their shelter"