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Title: In the Alaskan wilderness
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Gordon, G. B. (George Byron), 1870-1927
Subjects: Eskimo languages Alaska -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia : The John C. Winston Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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south from the direction ofMount Denali, heavily charged with silt fromthe glaciers. We afterwards learned that thisstream is called by the Indians Kwalana. Whenwe had passed this tributary and entered the lakewe found the water perfectly clear, and we hadsoon selected a good camping place on the shorenot far from the outlet. The shore at this pointwas hard and pebbly and covered with a thickgrowth of willows and alder and small birch.We saw a promontory with a high bluff to thesouthwest across the lake and fixed upon thisas a lookout from which to take our observations.The next morning being clear and with onlylight winds we crossed to this promontory inabout an hour, passed round its extremity and,turning to the south, drew our canoe up undera high bluff with a sandy beach at its base.The promontory terminates in a spit ending ina long sand bar that runs straight out under waterand forms a shoal. It is well, therefore, for any-one crossing the lake to give this point a wideberth. 62
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DENALI AS SEEN FROM OUR CAMP AT LAKE MINCHUMINA.AFTER A SKETCH BY THE AUTHOR CHAPTER IVThe Kingdom of Denali We climbed the bluff and followed the woodedridge southward until it began to fall away.Returning to a high point which we had marked,where the wood was sufficiently open to give agood outlook, we searched with the glass thehorizon and the border of the lake in everydirection. In the north the country was flatand wooded. Around the southern shore therestretched a narrow belt of the same low lyingscrub timber; behind that belt, the land roseand showed bare of timber. Still farther backthe higher hills were covered with snow; backof that rose the Alaskan range and, lifted overall, the loom of Denali, shimmering white, litup the Southern sky. From this point of obser-vation the mountain shows a double peak. Wejudged it to be about fifty miles away, but sogreat is its height and mass that it seemed muchnearer. On so vast a scale are its scarps andramps that they were clearly reveal

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