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Show No Snakes, but Mosuituva There arc no snakes in Alaska, perhaps, per-haps, becau.se nosmikus would live there. Tho only fro;; ever discovered by explorers ex-plorers tluro was found by my own party some yours ngo. I'robahly, however, how-ever, there is no pai l of the world where mosquitoes aro inoro dreadful than in Alaska. Tho 6oil is of a soft, spongy character that holds water for days after a rain, and the insects are bred out of it in such Bwnrma that it Is hardly possible for man or r.uy other animal to exist among them. They attack tho mooso with such ferocity us to drive the beasts into the rivers, whore the natives attack thorn with knives. Dears nnd reiudeer are plentiful. Perhaps the worst part of Alaska is that to the northwest, south of the Yukon river crossed but once by a party of explorers, who nearly starved to death. Washington Star. |