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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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kingas we understood it, and one of us was masterof this art as he was a master of camp life in allits details and as he was a master of the art oflife generally in all of its relations. At first weagreed to take turns cooking and I had thoughts 33 of becoming an accomplished cook. Gradually,however, by mutual consent, MacLaren tookthese duties over entirely, much to the generaladvantage, and I performed all the other workof the camp, including washing up the dishes. To return to our third camp, we made our-selves so comfortable and so much at home ina few hours on that sand-bar in the Tanana thatwe felt as if we could spend the rest of our naturallives there with entire contentment. That night was a wonderful starlit night, coolenough to make us draw close to the genial glowof the fire. Its cheerful crackling mingled withthe murmurs of the river and there was no othersound. We were already rested, and after every-thing had been made snug we sat by the campfire long into the night. 34
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CHAPTER IIThe Lower Kantishna We were up at the break of day, but made ourpreparations leisurely and it was nine oclock beforewe started; we paddled with a moderate cur-rent for four hours and stopped an hour for lunch.We passed later the little Indian village ofTolovana, where the natives had already ceasedto be of much interest, and a little later wereached the mouth of the Kantishna. Thisstream joins the Tanana in a swift flood aboutforty yards in width divided by an island whichsplits the current and forms a fork. Our paddleswere of no use now. To meet the opposing cur-rent of the Kantishna, which we were to ascend,we must resort to the poles. There were plentyof slender spruce trees on the bank, some of themso withered and dry that we had no difficultyin finding two that were suitable for poles. Withthese we were able to push the canoe againstthe swift current, and at 8.30 we pulled up againsta sandy bar on the island that at that pointdivided the stream, and there made camp. Her

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