On a Torn-Away World; Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake

northern Alaska and the Endicott Range, if Professor Henderson really intended go

after the reading of Dr. Todd's letter, talking over the contemplated journey, and

undertake the journey to Alaska, and accepted the ten thousand dollars to defray expenses. Andy Sudds made characteristic preparations for hunting the big game of the Alaskan

ked by the miner, showed it to be in a very wild region indeed. There was a native settlement named Aleukan within a hundred miles

a trail, however, passable in summer for a dogtrain from Coldfoot to Aleukan; and a dogtrain

ates discovered as soon as Dr. Todd's instruct

boat down the Yukon Flats and up the Chandler River, past Chandler and Caro, beyond which latter town there was a good road over a

ere made through an express company, and in three days the professor received word that the supplie

ume about a week or two, providing nothing untoward happened

row flies" was from 3,700 to 3,800 miles from their point of departure. Under favorable conditions the great flying machine should travel ninety miles an hour on the average. Unless there was a breakdown

robable that meat could be had for the killing in the valley to which they were bound, and the Indians at Aleukan could be hired to supply n

erful field glasses, a wonderful telescope, partly of his own invention; instruments for the measuring of mountains heights, th

us beasts; and although the several tribes of Indians inhabiting Alaska are all supposed to be semi-civilized and at peace with the white

tches from Fort Yukon. When the final message came that the boat bearing the supplies ha

ed at each other an

. We are ready to start the Snowbird at any moment. Andy has his guns aboard,

the professor, slowly. "S

ost at its full," Mark said, quickly. "The qu

nderson. "If you boys say the wo

his best rifle cuddled in the hollow of his arm. He does n

is Washin

lf, and he appeared bearing the traveling coop

ely you are not going to clutter up

ttsy done ter yo', Massa Jack, dat yo' should be obfendica

member, if we have to throw out anything to lighten ship, Buttsy goes

lemnly. "Nottin' will now disturb de continuity ob d

ng machine and got aboard with

they dispensed with the professor's catapult, for it would be necessary to have the trucks attached to the aeroplane to enable her to start properly from any point on which they might land. The workshop a

d then more rapidly as Jack increased the speed. T

the irrepressible

ck," cried Mark Sampson, likewise in

azed down to the dusky earth

sy should fall down dere, he'd suah