Identifier: inalaskanwildern00gord (find matches)
Title: In the Alaskan wilderness
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Gordon, G. B. (George Byron), 1870-1927
Subjects: Eskimo languages Alaska -- Description and travel
Publisher: Philadelphia : The John C. Winston Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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and I think from their hearts,that they were glad of our hospitality. It wasrough to be sure, but we did our best and we likedthe men for their quiet but sincere and heartymanner. On the next day they found the sack of flourhidden in a corner of one of the cabins, and, Ithink partly to avoid imposing themselves on us,they said good-bye and left us to return the waythey came, though the rain continued to fall. I now suffered more than ever from my leftfoot. The skin had broken on the middle ofthe instep, there was much inflammation andany muscular action caused great pain. On thisaccount, as well as on account of the rain, wedecided to stay comfortably where we were tillI got relief and the weather improved. For twodays the rain continued and for two days I maderapid progress. On the third day the sun cameout, and on that day I could wear my moccasinand walk without serious discomfort. Mac wasfor waiting till the foot was completely healed,but this time I had my way. I was sorry for 52
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it later, for I soon found that I was little, if any,help in poling. Worst of all, we soon struck veryswift water and Mac had to do most of the workhimself. It was hard work too, but for five hourshe swung his pole to such purpose that with butsmall help from me he had put many miles ofswift and broken water between us and Roose-velt. As we swung round a bend about four oclockwe opened up before us, under a perfectly clearsky, a distant sky line where the river dividedthe timber in a stretch of several miles. Theview which then greeted us was extraordinaryand startling. Right in front of us rose a moun-tain, broad at the base and culminating in asteep and jagged peak high up in the heavens.From its broad base to its summit it stood glis-tening white against the blue, huge and amazing.We judged it to be fifty miles away. It mayhave been more. We had already caught aglimpse of Denali, the great mountain, half buriedin clouds, and now for the first time we saw itnaked and splendid. Surel

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