Kalitan, Our Little Alaskan Cousin

g broke, he sprang to his feet and hurried out of doors, hopeful for the day's pleasures. The snow had stopped, but the ground was c

an friend, whom he spied heaping wood upon the c

Kalitan, briefly. "Th

l say something ex

aid Kalitan, as he prepared

u get the fis

fished when I got up

ing already," exclaimed the lazy T

said: 'Catch fish for Boston

ed his father, but there were times when he wasn't anxious to an

!" he sai

the camp if we all g

," said

o watch, I suppos

hy?" aske

me one will steal ou

man come along and steal from his brothers; Indians not. If we

mean by cache

ld take from a cache. If one has plenty of wood by the seashore or in the forest, he may cord it and go his way and no one will

Thlinkits, my boy," said Mr. Strong, who had come up in time to

e hunting to-day, and that you'll get

ed, dancing up and

pon it and see how the land lies, or, rather, the ice. It is getting warmer, and, if it continues

be, certainly was hard work. The chief said they must seek the glacier first before the sun got hot, for it was blinding on the s

eads and tails," said Ted, and

es, and hymn

asked Ted, as Kalitan

or any word in the English language, and a man replied, 'Y

ere a C

ains of T

up a mis

s, and hymn

but Kalitan

ston missionary, he

ska?" asked Ted, as they tramped

reat country,"

ever saw anything like this at home," pointi

bination of colour. It was as if some marble palace of old rose before them against the heavens, for the ice was cut and serrated into spires and gables, turrets and towers, all seeming to be ornamented with fretwork where the sun's rays struck the peaks and turned them into silver a

which had no bottom. Beyond the glacier itself, the snow-capped mountains rose grand and serene, their glittering peaks clear against the bl

rred, a thing of such wonder and beauty that T

thedrals appeared, and before them arose a wonderful city of white marble, dream-like and shadowy,

ed, and the old chie

he Dead," but

hese regions, but you are fortunate in seei

mirage?" de

e queer thing about a mirage is that you usually see the very thing most unlikely to be found in that particular

l in his father's talk because of Kalitan, whose dark eyes never left Mr. Strong's face, an

glaciers are the fathers of the icebergs which float at sea, and that these are broken off the glacial stream, but others deny this. When the glacial ice and snow reaches a point where the ai

you're likely to be satisfied with your new friends, for I shall have to go to many

ry and chalcedony,-but there's something which will interest you m

im that she should show such poor taste about firearms, and refuse to let him have any; and now that he had a gun really in his hands, he could hardly hold it, he was so excited. Of course it was not the first time, for his father had allowed him to pra

, almost as excited as the boy himself, and they ran to pick up t

his arrow through the bird's side, for he

ter, a Nimrod who killed two birds with one st

one I shot at,

d roasted them on a hot stone over the spruce logs, and Ted, tired and wet