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Show i cuuiiAr ti.i'thA. TIll'ltKI l.OlllTION.tAtlMllllin.ATIO.SS or a. n. rx'iiAH it Tin: AllMJI'TII. There Is n man III Beu TrancNco who his had his nose, t and fingers fruseti luor- (lini-s than he has lingers aul lot. He hs.bt-ill where lio Willie msn ever was hefuie. Jle has tie-lratil tie-lratil Into the wilds of Northern and Central Ala.Lu. llu has tiiMlrd (Mai miles on sled, s1101.si11.4-a and Iddarka I le has lived w Ith the natlvi. lleUlmUX, sung tlielr solnra li.tllleil their nial lens, ttteli their oily food and been ooni'allcd tn route In contact with thtlr llnilianllnces. Ho has at en tho grandeur of the frot.u Norm, heard atrillge voices and w. Ird ichnes In Iho Icy in-iH-s nnd is.rlenced tho trlhiitatlms of Hie Antic explorer. Not the Ural nor tho greatest of Alaskan explorers, yet his modest achievements, ain-ha. tho discovery dis-covery mid naming o( lalts Ctsrkuud Arkill nnd Iho rUir Noghtlln will sonly wluforhliu a lasting uauu In thonlchoof Alaskan dlacovvrrrs, fwu days ng7 ho arrived from IVit To lis. en Inn I Is i.ow at Iho Palace holt I, fhti registry give his name ns A. II. Hihani, lie Is it iier.iir mm. "When we left Hsu lYnn l.oo on At rll IDth or last star. Ihe.irly eom-pilst-d II, II. Well., nCirjcluuiil news-jr news-jr loan, 1.. J, (llsvi, n Vft.ron exloror,who wis with hUnley In 1MI, J0I111 Dillon and I. II. Price two mill who were engaged hele," said Mr. rkhanx yesterday when asked lo rt lata his exj ctle tiers (11 Alaska. "Wo ha oil tho Unlit. I ritatca steamer 'Patterson' and ti.t dlrtttly to Pyramid haiborou Chllkat Inlet, rherowoseiured canoes ami laddhs, aud Jraelug the hnrlair ou May (th, .I'tiiJt.l lhu Chllkat rlterusfar as Klokwau, an Indian Milage, Tho trip vrna anything hut pltasint. The river was snolleu, Ice running constantly con-stantly and thousands of huge diad salmuti lloatlug about us At Klokwau Klok-wau we eiwiiredtblrty native tkets auj then set out on foot evt r tho Chll. kal mountains. Wutliacovtred anew loasuud promptly named It after our eulloyer. You will II11J It on the niais hereafter as Leslie is. Its summit sum-mit IsoVro f.-et. On deanudlng we discovirt-.aiidiiamel laikeArkell, a Uullfull,od ol water, by the way. There we ditcl.argi-d tho -ckers, built u rift and rommeiHcd A tour of tlio lake. At Tahk river the first si lit In the orty iHnirred. (Ilava and Dillon ilatted futotlie illii-k country. The story of their travels has alrealy Uen told. "At Caiip Davldsou, on Iho Yukon river, aiiotlur split ocourred. I was taken vi ty sick aud remained alorioal thecamp for six years, while Wells aud Prliowent up Into the I orly.mllo crttk rtzlmi. Win 11 I had fully re-cuvsrtM re-cuvsrtM my atniiklh I sot nut ttovn Hit- Yukon rlwr In a native boat, Thtre I found sctniry that eimnled Iu grandeur nny thing whkh 1 hadt-vtr witnessed Ufore, At limes the banks ot the rlvir rose jKrioudlciilar lo Im-memo Im-memo htl-bts, forming ramparts Iu which nil sound ei howl and ro-ethoul In a manner ilnily awful. Hallo, hallo, hallo!' one would ity out. Tor almo.1 a whole minute Iho silence of death would ensue, then, all at once, Iu tunes of thunder the cry would come back froui Hie faithvrmost depths of tho ravine, then irom lhu utmost heights, then from here, there, until ono w as coinplett 1 overwhelmed Willi the iihots, 111.1I one tou Id almost foil tho sound waves strike tho tar "Jim I rinch and ono or two natives accompanied uioouthletrlp, Oneday uttir Hslng tho Arcllu clrclo wo stupiKxl for luuiheon on 11 little Island. Agrtatwludstormraiueup, nnd while we worostikliigslieller fertile tiro tu tho ho of the brush, away drifted our boat containing ovir)thiug wo kjs-sesetnl kjs-sesetnl lii tlio world Yta, we weru frlghleuod, and that's uttlng a mildly, mild-ly, too. 1 11 my ixeltemeut I tore oil my iJolhis and Juiuteil Into the Ice-cold wnttr to svtlm for tlio boat. Tho cramps struck my llml.s almost lhu Instant In-stant I touched the watt r, and In IeM than a utluiilo I wasat tlio mercy of a six knot current. Will, lo make It short, Jim Trench saved my life tint tlmo. Then w 0 lied some logs logitlur with our siisi-eudirs and lluallj sin-tie. sin-tie. led Iu riaililng Hie IjoI, her speed lielng tmiaded by her drajilng 11 liter," Mr, tjchanx made his wlntirtuarlers at tho llumaj vlllige of Kauullk. rhuru hu mi t John W. Clark, u trader, who determined loari uupuy hlnion a forty dijs' trip north on sleds. It wastlurlng this iirur.lini thatClirk lake was illwot ered and liamml, Thl. discovery le I to tho far more Imiiortaiil 0110 of IneNoghellii rlter, which con-nects con-nects lakts Clark and lllamua. This entirely ill-proves the currint msis, whlclishow Hist lake lllamua has no contributing stream. Homo valuiblo itstriiiomlcal obaervatloua were made Iu Ihat iiilghborhood, and then tho traveler set out on his long Journey homenard. |
