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Identifier: 1870alaskaitsres00dalluoft (find matches)
Title: Alaska and its resources
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927
Subjects: Alaska
Publisher: Boston : Lee and Shepard
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ate some of these articles, but I would not allow them to doso in the absence of the owners. The paddles, many of whichwere seen, were curiously painted with green, red, and black, andwere smaller and more pointed than those in use farther up theriver. The paddles decrease in size as we go down the river;those at the Yukon-mouth are very small and narrow indeed.We passed a very small waterfall during the day, the first I hadseen on the river. On a sm.all island we saw the first Indians. There were onlythree or four, and they were much alarmed when they first sawus. We landed, and found that they were making fish-traps.They had nothing to sell except some eggs, and a few ukali,which I bought for the dog. After making them a present of afew leaves of tobacco, we pushed off and continued down theriver. The boat was ill stowed, and a good deal of mud had gatheredin her bottom from our feet, so I determined to camp early, turnher over, and wash her thoroughly, after taking out the goods. I
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il i4il!ililliiiiiife^^ THE YUKON TERRITORY. 215 Nothing rots a bidarra like mud or dirt inside of it. We campednear a small brook, and Kurilla started off after game, while weattended to the boat. We finished cleaning her and gave her agood oiling before getting supper ready. The three Indians pol-ished the beavers bones, while I regaled myself on a fat tealroasted on a stick before the fire. Sunday, yth. — The day opened fair, but with the same wind,which was soon attended by smart showers of rain. We pulledalong shore, and about ten oclock came to the point where theRussians had located a sort of rapid. It proved to be nothingmore than a piece of swift water, running along the base of arange of low conglomerate bluffs, for two or three miles. Theriver here was quite broad ; to the right were successive hills,rising one after another, and fading into purple distance. Theleft bank was, as usual, low, and a large island divided the rivera few miles beyond. Kurilla said that the Indi

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