The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-07-29
ANOTHER CAPE NOME LETTER.
An Interesting Description of the
NnNAEc and the ComnIrN.

An Interesting Description of the
Voyage and the Country,
DR.. E. w Bryan, a brother of Misses
CAIRO and Johuele Bryan OF this city,
who last spring, during the height of the
Cape Nome gold fever, went with a party
of prospectors from West Texas. writes
the following interesting letter home.
concerning his trip and the Cape Nome
country:
Nome City Alaska, June 30, 19OO--Delr
Sisters: Will try to give YOU an ac-
count of my trip across tho mighty waters
we s1itsl on a very slow. tCpIeaVy YES
sci, and had a long, hard t'ip, let as
far as | can learn Jared AS well as others
We were ten days from Seattle to Dutch
harbor, an island of the Uualaska group.
Remained there three days, coaling TIE
island is mountainous, raging from 100
TO 800 feet high; at Cimes taay are cov-
cred with snow The aarth is covered
with a vegetation called moss. but has
no resemblance 10 that we call moss 1t
is from four to eighteen inches high. To
lie upon, it Is soft and ,pougy but In
walking upon ii, one logs 10 his knees
in places,
The waters Of the Pacific roll like those
OF the gulf but Bering strait is choppy.
IL
was as smooth as a duck pond but the
remainder OF our trip was very rough, as
1t would snow three Lr fur dimes In
d DAY, only lasting ;Iom one to three
hours. At one time when be vessel
was laying to- in the ice, we had a
dense snow storm, lasting four hours.
Just imagine 400 passengers rensihiug on
deck all that time, endeay1ring 10 pie1ce
the eye through the gloom.
cepnn6 do
we sighted the grand sea # ice. W! ich
extended as far as the eye could reach
then we went to the Siberian coast where
We had ice all around us for The remainder
OF our trip.
Siberia coEet like continuous chain
of ice covered mountains When we came
into the ice we were locked in for
twelve hours; then an opening appeared,
we retraced our way, ran Tor St Law
renee island. which was reached in four
teen hours then an open sea to Sledge
island, off from Sinrock. We first came
TO York, here the ice extended two or
three miles into the sea, so passengers
could not land. Thence to Slnrock, where
we remained for three days, Unloading
freight and passengers. Then we dropped
down to Nome arriving early on the
morning Of the 7th. The sea was so
trough we did not land Until & .. m. We
could only get our bedding and canvas,
1
using the latter as tent. We camped
upon the beach, about twenty feet from
! the water The ueXL morning that self
same water was washing uD under our
tent. and TO add to our discontinue II
Was showing, and continued curing the
entire day. The town did not have ac-
commentators for the treat, in1ux OF peo-
ME who wandered aimlessly through the
streets; for the only place vne could get
into. out OF the cold, was the saloons,
About . n m. we succeeded IN renflng
small log cabin. across the tundra "
We We're the most grateful. tired. hun
r,,, mon Won ever Jaw. A cot casts. for
tie night. 81; board IS er lay. and
aching TO eat at that s!1ne the 7th
there has been about 15p0o people men
ara warren. landed here. II is city
Of tents extending eight ~ ter n',l"s
along the beach. 1t Is the most
! Heterogeneous crowd you ever saw. ana