The Young Alaskans

trying to come aboard. Time and again the boys thought all was lost. Instead of passi

the rocks. Instead, they began to float down parallel with the coast, carried on the crest of the big tide-bore which every day passes down the east coast of Kadiak between the long, parallel islands which make an inland channel many miles in extent. As the boys called now they could hear an echo on each side of them, and indeed could

a trifle pale, "we can't get out

looked at h

l. "She rides like a chip. I believe if we keep low down s

fate. Now and again the fog shut down. Wild cries of sea-birds were about them. Now and then the leap of a great dolphin feeding in the tide splashed alongside, to sta

dez," said Jesse, at last,

This tide can't run clear round the world, because your uncle Dick said this island wasn't over one hundred and fifty

re cheerfully. "We'll get ashore

as continually hungry. He found the crackers now rather dry and hard to eat, so worried open a

t, they began to lose their fears. Indeed, little by little, the height of the w

oars again," sa

ould they row? Small wonder that in these crooked channels, with the wind shifting continually fr

running between Ugak Island and the east coast of Kadiak. In all, they remained in the dory perhaps ten or twelve hours, and in that time they perhaps skirted more than one hundred miles of shore-line, counting the indentations of the bays, although in direct distance they did not reach a total of more than fifty or sixty miles. At the head of one of these bays, had they but known it, there were salmon rivers where fishing-boats occasionally stopped; but all that they could do was to use the best

the coast caused the wind to whip around once more. The fog, broken into thousands of white, ropy wreaths, was swept away upward. There stretched off to the right the entrance of a vast b

At any rate, I'm for going in here. There will be streams coming d