Seward daily gateway., 1930-10-07
WEIRD REG|0u
Continued from Pare One)

A scrap of a diary giving the latitude of Balzulnetas, and which later fell into the hands of the Russians, was all that ever was found So ended the last attempt of the Russians to extend their domain in America. By way of confirming the Indian legend, Macdonald made some search to find some trace of the stockade which was built by the Russians in the vicinity of Bal zulnetas about 10 miles up riv- CT from Slana, but did not have time to do a thorough job.
 Securing an exceptionally in telligent Indian, whose Indian name is Nezcoy, but who is known to the white men by the unromantic name of Johnny Jackson, Macdonald made a re- connaissance trip to the Nabes- ma and later located the line. During the process of the work, Nezcoy told the interestingly weird tales of the region, and gave the Indian names of the local landmarks. At lunchtime, Nezcoy, who had a more marked [ appreciation of the beautiful than most white men, always in sisted on climbing to high ground and there, with the country of his fathers spread out before him, told the tales connected with the landmarks within vision. Mount Sanford, for instance, bears the eupho- niouS name of Klealthanny, which means the Mountain of the Tailed Man. Truly an Edgar Rice Burroughs name. The In dians have the amazing story that when they first came to this section they found it all ready occupied by race of tailed men Men of a very low order, who, beastlike, lived in dens in the ground and did not use fire.
 The invading chief engaged chief of the tailed men in bat tie and killed him. TO his as- tonishment the next day the dead chief alive and hearty, jeered at him on the trail. Once more the tailed man was killed, and this time the invaders cut him Up in small pieces. But again he reappeared and again the process was repeated, As they dropped the tail the end Tipped off some 200 feet into the brush. The victorious chief, amazed at this, secured the lively tail end and chopped it up fine and burned it Where upon voice from the hashed remains came, saying, "I am done; this is the end.' And so the Indians, still fearing anoth- er resurrection, piled brush, re- fuse, and debris on the shattered remains. They camped there all winter, piling everything there. The mound became higher and higher and glaciated, becoming eVentuallyy, Mt. Sanford, or Klealthahne, or the mausoleum of the tailed men.
 The located line from Slana passes back of Batzulnetas and to the head of Platinum Creek through a pass known as the Pass of the Last Battle. Here the local tribes were defeated and almost destroyed by an in- vading host from Nenana. This battle was not so many years ago and the shattered trees at the camp site are still visible.
 A wonderful legend of revenge and battle between two chiefs, Geehanguy-the Eagle, chief of the local tribes, and Tatahday, The Man who Moved the Mountain" is told in this con- nection. But that, as Rudyard Kipling says, lis another story
 The climate in this area, Macdonald said, "is quite re- markable. The snow lessens as the height increases. The pass at the head of Platinum IS al- most bare of snow, when 1,5OO 1 feet lower there may be sever al feet. The summer climate is delightful and compara- lively bugless It is also rela- lively dry" #H##"
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