Connecticut western news., 1898-04-28
ON BOARD THE VALENCIA.
To Me Eiitor of The Neirs.

IO tue EldOf V LHt NftoS'
 We left Seattle Thursday evening, April &, 1898, having added to our party quite 0 number of persons bound for the same destination as we are; also large addition to our freight. and pro- ceeded down Puget Sound. passing Vic toria. taking the inland course, winding in among tall overhanging mountains, around little islands, passing rocky capes and bringing up at s p m. Fri day in quiet bay where we anchored for the night amid pouring rain and dense fog. Just over on the shore which is only stones throw an Indian camp fire is burning; pretty soon q canoe comes along side us and offers us fresh cod at 25 cents each Soon we are tucked up in our state rooms and lost in the sleep of the just. Awaking at 2 30 o'clock Saturday morning we find our vessel Is weighing anchor and soon we are steamiug along through weird mountain scenery, along deep canyons whose perpendicular sides rise hundreds of feet on either side covered with spruce and fir trees, now in Prin- cess Charlotte Sound and we are re- minded that these rough waters will interfere with our equilibrium if we do not look out. The ciptain told us to keep our eyes up and not watch Iise and fall of the heaying ship if we would avoid sea sickness; so we station ed ourselves amid ship on deck aud cast our eyes heavenward, but it was no use, we had to fall into line and salute the beautiful waves of the ever rolling sea, and then retire to our state rooms and take an afternoon nap, and arose fresh, in time to see the seals playing in surf near by. These are the first seals we have seen since we left San Francisco where we counted them by the hundreds at the Cliff House. A com pany of U. s. soldiers are on board who will establish post offices all along the route. There are several captains and lieutenants on board so when they di vide into three squads captain goes with each of them; one squad up Cbil- koot Pass, one up Cook Iulet and the remaining one up Copper River with us. Captain Albercrimbie is a fine, genial gentlemen. He has given me valuable information about our trip that will be of great servics to us. As he has been up Copper River himself from it's mouth to it's source he is in condition 10 talk intelligently about which so little Is known. There are quite few people that pretend to have been up Copper River but as matter of fact have not been able t. fad but two persons, one Col. Allen i'll 1885, and the other Captain Albercrimbie in 1886, and we have the great privilege of his company on our journey up this coast and up the Copper River. A big whale is now spouting the water and making for the deep sra, as it is quite wide now. Only a few miles back the tall lofty hills almost meet at the top forming an arch through which we sailed and we almost feel like lifting our hats at the grandeur through which we are passing. Talk about the Hud- son River scenery; it's not in 1t. These deep gorges, lofty snow capped hills towering heavenward, this charming island on our right and that shady al- cove to our left form one continued panorama of the uuspt akable beauties that Nature has cast in opr path aa ay to Land of the Midnight Sun. Soon we will reach our stopping place where I mail this letter 1 will write again from Orca; so farewell
 FRANK EMMoNs.
 April 10, 1898, on the ocean wave. somewhere in the inner channel near the Alaskan boundary.