Show alaskan climate not bad A hunter and traveler who recently ended an expedition through some ot the wildest parts of alaska says that the climate of that country is not so terrible as has been alleged after spending seven months in the country in a season noteworthy tor the ex lateness and seventy of the spring he bears ample testimony to the decency ot the weather life in a small cotton tent was not unbearable even in april many days in may left much to be desired he writes but others were about as good as could be wished during june and from thence onward to the end of september the weather was a great revelation to our party bad v eather being an unknown quantity the summer closely resembled a very ine summer season in norway with the exception that I 1 have not seen in that country such long spells of days without rain or wind as those in the kenai peninsula but on the other hand mosquitoes are a great curse even to the toughened hunter mosquito veils and long gauntlets are some protection against these insects chich in alaska so the prospectors declare look as big as rabbits and bite like dogs there is a curious theory among prospectors and others n alaska that in the mountains and the interior an animal exists which is neither a wild sheep nor a mountain goat this is believed by some to be a species of ibex an animal which has never yet been identified in north america it Is thought to be possible that this animal may turn out to be no more than the descendant of domestic goats which have long since reverted to the wild state on the other haid there is no sound reason why wild ibex should not be feind in the heart of alaska lists say asia and north america are here very near together ages ago they wera probably united and as ibex are found in asia it Is quite within the bounds of possibility that they also exist n alaska |