Williams news., 1904-06-04
JcoNTINUED FROM LAST WEEK. l

ing it by hand or on sled up to and over the glacier was enough to strike terror to the heart of any one. It was nearly night when the work was completed; very few of the men had taken time to put up their tents, SC the first night on the snow was not very cheerful. Our first camp was made on the shore, half mile from where our caches were, and with fifteen or twenty feet of snow under us, no stoves put up and no wood at hand, having had no supper and our provisions half mile away, many felt like selling out and returning to the Valencia. In fact. one man did this. Those who bad no tents up slept in blankets or sleeping bags down on the snow.
 The next morning every one was up bright and early, and it was not long before between five and six hundred tents were put up and stoves were going in full blast, showing that something was doing for breakfast. The saving of wood, men giving orders how to put up their tents, the preparations for breakfast and the barking of the released dogs made things lively for awhile Many of the young men who perhaps had never made piece of toast for themselves before that day, made sorry work of cook ing, and soon had all the experi- ence they wanted in that line, and were willing to turn it over to any one who would take the job.
 The first day was spent in mov ing our outfits off the ice, which was fast breaking up, to our camp. 1 will leave the reader to figure how many miles a man had to make moving his outfit of three thousand pounds that first half mile, the av- craze load being one hundred and fifty pounds.
 After all were in camp in Valdes they set about getting a few sticks of wood. This they had to struggle through fifteen feet of snow to get, a distance of two miles, After three or four hours of this kind of work one reached camp with about four sticks of wood, the size of a stove pipe and five feet long. This is a fair sample of what we went through each time we went for fuel I say ''we," because helped little, even if I am a woman.
 The days that followed were spent in moving our outfits up to the foot of the glacier-up a steady hard pull for distance of six miles.
 The dogs which had been brought over were not great success. Few of them could be taught to pull, and those that did sank so deep in the snow that little headway could be made, even though their masters would keep at them with a whip.
 Oftentimes the crust would break and tear their feet until they could scarcely walk and they would leave a trail of blood along the path. Few oi the dogs had any kind of care, for the reason that their mas ters did not always have time to cook for themselves. The food given them was mostly dry corn meal mixed up with snow, a few bacon rinds sometimes thrown in. Many of the dogs starved on this diet. With no water to drink, little food, and standing day after day in the snow in their weakened con dition, they soon succumbed and could be seen lying dead all along the trail Their walls for food and water, for snow only increased their thirst, were pitcons to hear, but no one had wood to spare to cook for for them, even if there had been time Some of them were buried in the snow, for in heavy fall of snow it was impossible to get to the dogs.