The Alaska citizen., 1910-08-22
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Lewcs and continued down the river in this mmauagcahlc craft. running the various rapids. to Fort Selkirk at the junction of the Pellcy and Lcwcs. From this point on he was travcrsing q river which had been explored by the Western Union Tel cgraph agents and was already oc- Cupied by the fur traders. Schwatka continued his trip to Fort Yukon and thence to the sea. To Charles W. Homau who accompanied SchWat- ka as topographer and made sketch surveys throughout the entire jour ncy. correcting them by observations for latitude. belongs the credit of having made the first actual sur vey of the Yukon and Lewes rivers Crude as il was. it has only in very recent years been superseded by better work. SChWatka's rather spec tacular account of his trip down Alaskas great river, journey which Haul 'ttu HLdht bN HidhH O'litI@' hlh much to rouse public interest in tish far away region. and in the course of the following decade a number of exploring parties were sent out
 During the years 1SS1-lSS3 a mete- orologiCal and magnetic station. in charge of Lieut.. r. II. Ray. was maintained at Point Barrow by the United States Signal Service No explorations or surveys of any i'm portanCe were attempted.
 Dr. Arthur Krause of the Geo graphical Society of Bremen, Ger many, in 1881, made a journey from the coast at Lynn Canal into the Chilkoot river basin. He subsequently published a map which for more than ten years was the basis for all other maps of the region visited by him.
 In 1884 Lieut.. w. R. Abercrombie, United States army, was detailed to
 
 river. He ascended it short dis tancc. but his expedition may be looked upon as an entire fail ure This work was taken up again in the following years by Lieut. Henry T. Allen, who made one of the most remarkable journeys in the annals of Alaskan cxplora- tions. Allen with four men landed at the mouth of the Copper river in March. 1SS5, and made his way up that stream by boat and sled for about 300 miles; then crossed to the Panama by way of the Suslota Pass, and securing another boat from the natives. continued his journey to the mouth of the Panama During this part of the journey the party was dependent entirely upon the coun- try for food and were in half starved condition when they reached the Yukon about the end of June With interchangeable energy Allen then, with one companion. crossed 10 the koyukuk from near the mouth of the MeloZi river, and explored it almost from the Arctic Circle to it's junction with the Yukon. Crossing by portage from the lower Yukon to Norton Sound. he made his way to St. Michael, whence he returned by steamer 10 the United States. No man through his own explorations has added more to the geographic knowledge of the interior of Alas ka than Lieutenant Allen. Through out his journey he made careful sketch surveys and noted all facts which came within his observation: and within one season he made maps of three of the larger rivers of the Territory, which, until ac- curate surveys were made twelve years later, were the basis of all d careful, painStakng observer who did his utmost to gain all the in formation possible.
 During the years 1883 to 1886 eX- tensiye explorations were made by officers of the navy and of the Rev enue-Marine Service along the riv- CTS tributary to KotZebue Sound. These led to a more general knoWl- edge of this remote part of Alaska than of parts which were far more accessible.
 In 1883 Lieut.. George M. Stoney, who was sent to the coast of North eastern Siberia on the revenue steamer Corwin to distribute pres entS to the natives who had aided the Jeanette relief expedition, exam ined the vicinity of KotZebue Sound, and with the aid of some natives ex- plored the delta of the kobuk river, which Simpson had learned of in 1850. Having interested the Navy Department in these explorations, StOney returned in the following year, and with the aid of a steam cutter and native boat managed to ascend the kobuk to the mouth of the Soolukpowaktoark river, and con cd n ctr nm tn in,