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Title: A woman who went to Alaska
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Sullivan, May Kellogg
Subjects: Alaska -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston : J. H. Earle & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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chedthe incoming steamers, and welcomed all new com-ers who landed in Chinik. Many were simply pass-ing through on their way up Fish River to themines, and praise of the land of the Ophir goldwas sung on all sides. A few remained for thesummer. Here men built boats, and rowed awayto Keechawik and Neukluk, carrying supplies forhunting or prospecting. The captains vegetable garden in the sand wasgrowing rapidly, and was watched with eager eyesby everyone. We ate lettuce and radishes, pickedfresh from the garden beds where they had beensown by the captains own hands, and we foundAgeetuk and Mollie to be quite famous cooks.Nothing so delicious as their salads (for the Frenchcooks had long ago gone, the hotel managementbeing changed, and Mollie had a nice little kitchenof her own), and with fresh salmon trout, wild fowl,fresh meats and vegetables, we made up for many■months of winter dieting. All this time I longed to get awav. I was gomgeach day to the hill-top to watch for the steamers
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A Woman Who Went—To Alaska 377 which would bring the letters for which I waited.Affairs connected with my gold claims were, withmuch anxiety and trouble, arranged as well as pos-sible, and when I boarded the steamer, I wouldcarry with m£, at least, three deeds to as manyclaims, with a fair prospect of others; but I couldnot decide to remain another winter. I was d 3-termined to go to St. Michael, up the Yukon lODawson, and outside, and laid my plans accord-ingly. Letters from my father and brother in Daw-son had been received. How my heart ached when I thought of leavingthe little sick girl and Charlie, the latter now grownwilful, but still so bright and pretty. I wantedto take both with me, but, no, I could not. The little girls work was not ended. Hers is awonderful mission, and she is surely about to ful-fill it. Born as she was in a rough mining campat the foot of the barren hills, she was given theEskimo name of Yahkuk, meaning a little hill,and she, like an oasis in a desert

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