The Daily Alaska empire., 1951-10-13
Writer Takes Trip
 Down Yukon, Tanana Rivers by Canoe

Down the long reaches of the Panama and Yukon rivers to the Boring Sea and then to St. Mich ael 60 miles from the mouth of the Yukon River was the canoe trip taken by John R. Edwards during the summer.
 He left Fairbanks June 2 in a 13- foot aluminium canoe on his II weeks trip that took him an es- timated HOO miles. He kept pho- tographic and diary record of his trip and hopes to write book about his trip.
 At the village of Paimiute, about 800 miles from his jumping off place, he said that waves nearly swamped his canoe. It was there that he traded his original boat for an IS foot riverboat with one- horsepower outboard. After leaving the village, river banks got so high and muddy in spots that he had to live aboard his canoe for several days at a time. Edwards took will lows and piece of canvas to make house boat out of his boat. To break the loneliness of his trip, he would spend two or three days in villages along the river banks. Somewhere along the trip he picked up Husky pup and trained him to carry pack.
 At the village of Marshall on the Yukon, Edwards met the Alaska Department of Health floating clin- ic, the Yukon Health. He spent sev- eral days with the crew aboard the clinic.
 Gets Wind Trouble About a week before he got into St. Michael, an off-shore wind gave him trouble The wind kicked up waves that kept shorting out the sparkplug on his outboard motor, he said. With his motor not working, Edwards said he would have drifted out into the Boring Sea if it had not been for Alec Andrews, an Es- kime from Pastolik.
 Andrews lowed Edwards into a slough. The reason for Andrews boat being able to navigate in tne wind and waves was that the Es- kimo's boat had an enclosed motor. A couple of days later Edwards started through the slough for St. Michael.
 He then ran into dead end arm of the slough. After the fog lifted, he saw the village of Stebbens a short distance away. He hiked to the village where someone drew map of the channel for him to St. Michael. When he arrived there, he set up living quarters in the old jail as he said there were no hotels.
 Has Goose Dinner
 While waiting for the mail plane to come into St. Michael, he was invited to a goose dinner in an Eskimo's home. That was when he lost his appetite momentarily, he said. The pot of goose stew was placed on the table and he dipped into it with his fork.
 The first thing he speared was the head and neck of the goose. That wasn't so good, he said. He dropped it back into the pot and tried again. This time he got the breast but it had the lungs at tached. This was also dropped back. The third trip into the pot netted him leg. After few weak at tempts at eating it, he excused him. self and prepared his own supper. When the mail plane came, Ed wards flew to Nome. Unalakleet and into Fairbanks. There he met Charles Ott, free-lance photographer on a tour of Alaska. The two of them drove over the highway to Haines in Ott's car. Edwards came on into Juneau to look into possi- bilities of homesteading in the Haines area.
 He found that he has to go to Anchorage where the U. s. Land Office has records on available