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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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tea; and in this respect it is preferable to biscuit, whichtakes a long time to soak. It is, however, more liable to breakup than biscuit, when carried in a bag, and not unfrequently re-tains dust and grit from the mud walls of the peechka, unlessvery carefully dried. We had both biscuit and sukaree; some ofthe latter having been made of white flour, it proved execrable,the Russian sukaree being always made of groats or Grahamflour. Just above the ravine and little brook where we took our teawas a rounded rock, boldly jutting out into the river. Aroundthis a constant stream of ice-cakes, logs, and driftwood was pour-ing. The Russians first reached this point, and after one or twotrials turned back and camped, hoping that the ice would ceaserunning before the next morning. Kunlla saw this move withgreat disgust. The Russians retreat: Unookuk will not retreat,said he, and struck boldly out into the stream of ice and drift-wood. Por ten minutes all had their hands full, staving off logs
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THE YUKON TERRITORY. n The brown Miocene sandstones before mentioned are suc-ceeded here by blue sandstones, which at Nulato he below them.The latter contain few fossils, — mostly sycamore leaves (Pla-tanus), and other vegetable remains. Monday, May 2jtli. — Starting about three oclock in the morn-ing, we soon passed the Russians, who had gone a little fartherin the night and camped above us. We passed through a smallslough or pratoka between some islands. About ten oclock wearrived at a fine bluff near the mouth of the Koyukuk River, alandmark in this part of the country, and known as the Koyu-kuk Sopka. Here is a small Koyukun village, where we stoppedand took tea. I bought a large pike (Esox estor) and a quantityof dry reindeer meat. After passing the Sopka the river is very winding, and wefrequently crossed it in order to shorten the distance. When indoing so we came to the main channel, it was a hard tug tocross it, and we invariably lost ground, sometimes as much as amile. O

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