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Show WINTER TRAVEL IN ALASKA Archdeacon Stuck Tells of Some of tha Sufferings to Be Encountered in the Frozen North. Archdeacon Stuck, nl ready famous for Ins ascent of Mount. MeKinley, made a remarkable journey into Alaska last winter. II is route extended around the whole arctic coast of Alaska, beginning begin-ning at the west side, and thence inland in-land to Fort Yukon. lie was received everywhere Willi cordial hospitably hy the Eskimos. Two weeks were siienl at I'oint Barrow, where the traveler trav-eler had an opportunity of studying the largest Eskimo village in Alaska under winter conditions. During the .subsequent journey of 225 miles to I' laxman island the party saw only one human being and were housed only twice. The archdeacon describes it as ,:the harrenest, most desolate, most, forsaken for-saken coast I have ever seen in my life; flat as this paper on which I write, (he frozen land merging indis-tinguishalily indis-tinguishalily into the frozen sea; nothing but a stick of driftwood here and there, half buried in the in-denied in-denied snow, gives evidence of the shore." For two weeks the travelers had to face a bitterly cold northeast wind, and the faces of all were continuously frozen. The heaviest task of all was the journey over the winter's unbroken un-broken snow to Fort Yukon. On this inland trip Sfefansson and his party were encountered and escorted to Fort Yukon, where Stefansson, who was ' seriously ill, received medical attention. |