The Cordova daily times., 1920-07-17
TEACHERS TELL, OF TRIP THRU
 THE INTERIOR

The freighter Cordova, which dock ed here last Saturday, had on board two school teachers from Dawson, Y. T.,-Miss Buck and Miss Burns, of Alberta, Canada-who were spending their vacation taking a trip down the Yukon. They left Dawson June F, on the steamer Reliance, and sailed down the Great River" as far as the Tanana, where they changed boats and proceeded with their trip on a small gas boat, the Kotlik. So crowded was this craft that the girls had to sleep curled up among the mail sacks on the deck.
 "It has been a most wonderful trip" said Miss Buck. "The scenery of the upper Yukon is indescribably beautiful. It seems to be the general impression that the trip along the lower Yukon is monotonous and un- interesting, with nothing to look at except mud flats. We have not found it so The shores are lovely with wild roses, buttercups and many other flowers. We had an opportunity to visit the mission at Holy Cross, and found it very interesting. There were 125 children cared for there. Two were Laplanders. You ought to see what wonderful garden they have! The older boys tend it, and it furnishes all the vegetables they need. The children speak surprisingly good Eng fish The Russian church at Andre afsky was interesting too.
 "The Kotlik sprang leak, so al the mouth of the Yukon we changed boats again, this time to a tiny launch, pretentiously named the War rior'
 She took us on to St. Michael. There was more to St. Michael than we thought Several houses, a ware house and wharf. There we had to wait till the Cordova, which, along with the Victoria and the Ketchikan had been bound several days in the Nome road-stead, had made their way in to Nome, unIoaded and come over to St. Michael We boarded the Cor dova, sailed south past the Pribilot Islands, where the seals cOngregate ] on through Unimak Pass, and here we are We went down town this morn ing. It seems to be quite town you have here, from what I could see o1 it for the fog.
 we were on the Yukon on the twenty-first of June, the longest day of the year, and watched the mid. night sun rest for about five minutes on the horizon and then rise again.
 Sometimes in the course of oul trip we would stop at some rude camp along the shore for something to eat I remember stopping at one place where a squaw-man lived, and as { special delicacy we were given boiled fish-heads. Ugh! We saw ig1Oos now and then, that looked to us like wash-basins turned upside down. To get in we had to drop down on hands and knees.
 What do you think? At one little village we found we could get sugar. for fifteen cents a pound! That jus shows how far from civilization wt were! I understand it costs thirty ol whereabouts here, and when we lief Dawson it was selling at thirtyfive.
 Dawson is not so dead as some O the Alaskan towns. There is still { great deal of gold there, and two big dredge companies have been at worl this season.
 q understand we are to take or copper ore here, and salmon. Biz bales of hides were brought on board at Nome. They looked like cOW-hides but as COWS didn't seem to be very plentiful there, I suppose they were reindeer hides"