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Page 428 - Fifteen men on the dead man's chest — Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum ! Drink and the devil had done for the rest — Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum...
Page 364 - Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended (or so much thereof as may be necessary) in the discretion and under the direction of the Secretary of War for the purchase of subsistence stores, supplies, and materials for the relief of people who are in the Yukon River country, or other mining regions of Alaska...
Page 187 - For those who have not laid in a winter's supply to remain here longer is to court death from starvation, or at least a certainty of sickness from scurvy and other troubles.
Page 2 - The news that the telegraph is bringing the past few days of the wonderful things of Klondike, in the land of the midnight sun, has opened the floodgates, and a stream of humanity is pouring through Seattle and on to the golden Mecca of the north. It is a crowd at once strange, weird, and picturesque. Some say it eclipses anything in the days of '49. The good ship Portland, which recently brought a million and a half of treasure to this port, sails for Alaska to-morrow at noon. She will carry every...
Page 6 - There are but few sane men,' says one, 'who would deliberately set out to make an Arctic trip in the fall of the year, yet this is exactly what those who now start for the Klondike are doing.' And this: 'TIME TO CALL A HALT Only a Few Will Be Able to Reach Dawson This Year' And another: 'WINTER WILL SOON SET IN THERE Suffering Seems Inevitable What Gold-Seekers Must Endure — Their Chief Food in Winter is Bear-Fat, and a Bath or a Change of Clothing is Death.
Page 404 - Dams of crib-work filled with stones, flumes, and sluice boxes lay across our path; heaps of "tailings" glistened in the sunlight beside yawning holes with windlasses tumbled in; cabins were deserted — the whole creek, wherever work had been done, was ripped and gutted. Nothing but flood and fire is so ruthless as the miner.
Page 5 - Some say it eclipses anything in the days of '49. The good ship Portland, which recently brought a million and a half of treasure to this port, sails for Alaska to-morrow at noon. She will carry every passenger and every pound of cargo that she has the ability to transport. The Portland has booked for this passage fifty first-class and ninety-eight second-class passengers.
Page 299 - Then they told him of its marvelous richness, and, as Tappan Adney relates, when Henderson realized what he had lost through Carmack's treachery, "he threw down his shovel and went and sat on the bank, so sick at heart that it was some time before he could speak." Then there were the rest of the oldtimers, the men of Forty Mile and Circle City. At the time of the discovery, nearly all of them were over to the West at work in the old diggings or prospecting for new ones. As they said of themselves,...
Page 378 - DRUGS DRUGS Rubber boots shoes Etc. bacon, flour, rolled oats, rice, sugar...
Page 387 - Steele's report also refers to the sufferings of a party induced to follow this route by an article by Arthur Heming in The Mail and Empire, Toronto, and The Hamilton Spectator. The route was used in part by the crews deserting from whalers wintering at Herschel...