| Show I FIB TO MINE DOGS DRESSING OF WHALE OIL MADI MADE substitute FOOD acceptable TO PALATE HARDY JAP ENDS LONG TRIP arrives at dawson alaska after long journey through frozen with legs lega clid in startling effects victoria 13 C one of the most marieloui man eloiiE walking kilps in the bistor history 0 of alasu alaska has haa been completed by annada wada the japanese mho ft ho has haa arria d at dawson the word mush with its suffixes means in this region fealk alk walker malker or walking wada on ar rival WAS a black as a kaffir from weeks of reflected sun BUU from the bright banow surfaces bur faces and hla his dierks leeks were che checkered hered and senates ted lite like alligator hide bide alternate freezing and roast ing ills six faithful duga dogs with which he left the klondike capital and a to boggan with a few personal belong insa ingo were mere all that he nought li ought tuck back he did not even wear mear trousers trouse is all that was left to edoin his nether limbs was mas a woolen undergarment but over mer this he had dialed with all the grace of 0 a skill a huge parka which he be en dured while he down domn the mud dy yet well lined streets to his hodg ing place at big jos during his long mush wada lan iian choit of supplies and had bad to feed his socks and trousers ers to the dogs A treatment of whale oil from a bottle he was all the sauce the ani mals desired and wadi shared their III abery by from rampart house to dawson trouse iless wada Is from a point east of her schel island this time lie he left daw son early in the winter inter traveling by dog team to fort yukon there se ae cured the services of harry anthony a canadian for trail blazer and with mith him traveled to rampart I 1 house ou at that point anthony turned back and wada fearlessly plunged into the mild wilderness erness and went ment up the por for cugine cupine thence over a divide to the northward and launched into the open j AU had to feed socks and trousers to the dogs waste of country looking out hundreds of miles toward herschel HerschE 1 with no companionship but that of his dogs and using a small tent teat each night for refuge wada akada over the sparsely wooded and willow clad arctic slope toward herschel ile he made the land inland I without mishap and then dropped in on the unsuspecting whalenia one fine day I 1 ahe he greatest excitement exciter neut prevailed when they knew there was a person among them from the outer world and what news he had was pumped from him with mith eager ness wadi wada lemal nod among the whalers chalers six days and then continued hla his long mush circling somewhat to the westward me stward and taking in a region along the spui seui of mountains thre thore ile ho went to inspect the field as a prospector proe but he be declines to make any statement as to his discoveries at al though willing to tell of a famous arctic slope it was march 24 when wada nada got started back on lite his long homeward trip he brought with sith him letters from the royal th western police post at herschel and the officers and crews of the whaler baler ile he thought on arrival at foit yukon that he would not be able to get to daw daa son over the ice fee so BO he be mailed the letters there ilien ihen he changed hla his mind and beat the letters to dawson with the exception of one or two un stamped letters which were mere not in th general bundle on my may way back said wada 11 1 I followed somewhat inland along the arct t c slope aud and then headed beaded up the old crow river thence down the rapid river to the porcupine thence along the he rampart to rampart house I 1 had plenty of of food tor for myself but run ning ehy eby on dog feed I 1 gave the mala routes ni ma pants and socks bocks fortunately the spring days so warm that I 1 did not suffer keenly as I 1 should have in winter several times tampa during roy my trip I 1 was storm bound and my cheeks cheeka were mere frozen frolen but on the most severe days daya I 1 lay in my tent ana took no chances from harst hel island to rampart my actual tra traveling elhag time wua aus nine days ran ram part dofort yukon saven folt foit yu tu kon to dawson eight total 24 davs I 1 spent tout or five da dai s 13 liang ing idle at rampart and fort yukon |
