Show FEO TROUSERS TO MENUS am DRESSING OF WHALE OIL MADE substitute FOOD ACCEPT ABLE TO PALATE HARDY JAP ENDS LONG TRIP arrives at dawson alaska after long journey through frozen bolth w th legs clod in ng effects mccort B C one ot of the most maiv elout elou walking trips in the history of alaska has been completed by wada the japanese who has arrived at dawson the word mush with its suffixes means in this region walk w wilker ilker or walking wada on ar rival was a black as a kaffir from weeks of reflected sun from the bright snow surfaces and his cheeks were checkered and serrated like alligator hide from alternate freezing and roast ing his six faithful dogs with which he left the klond ke capital and a to boggan with a few personal belong inge ings were all that he brought bacs back he did not even wear trousers all that was left to adorn his nether limbs was a woolen undergarment but over this he had draped with all the grace of a skirt a huge parka which he en dured while he down the mud dy yet well lined streets to his hodg ing place at big jos during his long mush wada ran short of supplies and had to feed his socks and trousers to the dogs A treatment of whale oil from a bottle he carried was all the sauce the cini tul mals desired and wada wads shared their misery by from rampart house to dawson wada Is from a point east of her schel island this time he left daw son early in the winter traveling by dog team to fort yukon there se cured the services of harry anthony a canadian for trail blazer and with him traveled to rampart house at that point anthony turned back and wada fearlessly plunged into the wilderness and went up the por cupine cubine thence over a divide to the northward and launched into the open had to feed socks and trousers to the dogs waste of country looking out hundreds of miles toward herschel with no companionship but that of his dogs and using a small tent each night for refuge wada over the sparsely wooded and willow clad arctic slope toward herschel he made the island without mishap and then dropped in on the unsuspecting one fine day the greatest excitement prevailed when they knew there was a person among them from the outer world and what news he had v as pumped from him with eager ness wada lemal ned amons among the whalers six days and then continued his long mush circling somewhat to the westward and taking in a region along the spur of mountains there he went to inspect the field as a prospector but he declines to make any statement as to his discoveries al though will ng to tell of a famous arctic slope strike it was march 24 when wada got started back on his long homeward trip he brought with him letters from the royal I north western police post at herschel and the officers and crews of the whaler he ile thought on arrival at fort yul on oil that he would not be able to get to dawson over the ice so he mailed the letters there then he changed his mind and beat the letters to dawson with the exception of one or two un stamped letters which were not in the general bundle on my way back said wada I 1 followed somewhat inland along the arctic aloi e and then headed up the old crow river thence down the river to the porcupine thence along the rampart to rampart house I 1 had plenty of of food tor for myself but run ning hy by on dog feed I 1 gave the mala mutes my pants and socks fortunately the spring das days were vere i so warm arm that I 1 did not suffer keenly as I 1 should have in winter several times during my trip I 1 was storm bound and my cheeks were frozen but on the most severe days I 1 lay in my tent and took no chances from herschel island to rampart my actual trai traveling eling time ws nine days ram part to fort yukon seven fort yv kon to dawson eight total 24 days I 1 spent four or five days lying idle at rampart and fort yukon |