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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
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d by a very annoyingblack gnat, it was a great relief. On the ioth of August, the weather being fine,we left our temporary lodgings in the log cabinand on that day we passed four more rapids. On the day following we descended a verybeautiful stretch of river; the water was slackand dark and placid and reflected the slopingbanks and the thick growth of spruce timberthat made an uninterrupted fringe on either side.The timber gradually grew larger as we descendedand many of the tall trees were two feet in diameternear the base. The Kuskokwim runs a verytortuous course, turning about and winding andforming many wide loops and bends. In the afternoon we came to the Indian en-campment for which we had been on the lookout.It was on the left bank and consisted of threefairly large brush shelters, a summer encampment. The Indians at Minchumina had prepared usnot to expect to find many people at this campuntil the hunting season was over. We foundjust one very ancient Indian. He was the onlyioo
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IX THE DESERTED CABIN ON THE TICHININIK Indian I ever saw anywhere who exhibited sur-prise and excitement, as he did at our appearance.He had evidently never seen white men beforeand was clearly afraid. We could make littleof him and after making him some slight presentswe continued our journey. Some time in the afternoon of the second dayafter leaving the old Indian we caught a regularsuccession of sharp sounds, like the rattle of oarsin the rowlocks. Something and probably some-body was approaching round the bend. Thenwe heard voices quite near and distinct and in amoment more we came upon two white men intwo boats. With their backs to us as they workedtheir oars, they did not see us till we glided noise-lessly to within ten yards of them and spoke.Both were trappers and each was in a boat thathe had built himself. They had come in differentdirections out of the wilderness and had metaccidentally on the Kuskokwim two days before.One had just come down the South Fork, wherehe had spe

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