The Boy Scouts on the Yukon

ned before many days of the voyage had elapsed into something like warm friendship and the miner became a wellspring of j

him, and as the novelty of the scenery and surroundings gradually wore off, they turned more and more to his companionshi

he ice of the Arctic sea, the crews of which had been forced to winter at Point Barrow, the most n

ir relief. Lieut. Jarvis of the Revenue Marine Service, who was in the east at the time on furlough, from his ship, a revenue cutter engaged in patroling Bering Sea to protect the seal fisheries, volunteered to make the effort to relieve the starving men, although he was leaving the bedside of a sick wif

by Lieutenant Jarvis and his aides. By assembling from the various reindeer stations which the government had established in the Far North, a large herd of

o good as them deer. There we was, a dirty, unsightly mob so near to death that we had lost about all resemblance to humanit

or the nerve of those three officers at the head of it, they would have lost their lives and the provision they had brought would not have lasted three weeks. But those fellows

ness and daily exercise, which is the only thing that will save a man's health in that deadly Arctic climate where the bill o' fare is only about one line long, and a healthy body is the only thing that will save a man's mind from that dea

e that Congress, after thinkin' a long time about it finally acknowledged it by votin' him some

the Arctic sea, Swiftwater had taken to mining and

s returning to their posts in the North several old friends of his army days and had taken the opportunity to make some inquiries as to the miner with evidently satisfactory results. These army officers Col. Snow took occasion to introduce to the Boy Scouts and the element of co

and incidentally the officers evinced a strong curiosity in the o

the town, put in some time in company with Swiftwater Jim in the office of the United States Commissioner, who is practically a local

purpose, of course, to place you in charge of a competent manager who will really command the expedition the rest of the way until the machinery is installed on the timber land that I intend to exploit. Of course you will be furnished with sufficient expert Indian labor to assis

epper, adopting the vern

e if I understand what we

e don't see, Swiftwater is the man to tell

aid the cautious Don, "there

st man I could find for the work I want done, and I took the first opportunity to a

cessary for me to tell you that the discipline will be perhaps a little more strict than it has been in the ranks of the patrol at home, and while it will

g like a campaign th

't be much peaches and cream about it. Plunging into a wilderness as you must, you leave behind all the comforts and most of the sanitary saf

reverted to certain milk and porridge days, imposed after an

well prepared, but you must govern yourself as to how you deal with it. Food in most parts of Alaska is a costly pro

as he often did when he seemed to be wrestling with a problem, "if yon

in a book that four thousand years of oatmeal porridge, three times a d

You fellows are about even now. The smallest sort of an appeti

hat I think I speak for the whole patrol when I promise in their names the most earnest fi

ng the Colonel, who also rose and returned it with a smile of ack

iner. With one accord the patrol turned toward the grizzled Alaskan and sa

a man jumped about a foot high every time I spoke real serious, but I guess we can get through this job without muc

of this work included thorough instruction in the geography of Southeastern Alaska and Southern Yukon territory, the Colonel's land being located in the Canadian dominions. Especially was their attention drawn to numerous wa

stimate the amount of freight that was to be handled and the best way of distributing it among t

, be appointed guide to this expedition to the dark and creepy hold.

aid Dick with a mock shudder,

of call in Alaska, and Dick's fears were therefore groundless, but Jack, who had learned the lesson of taking a joke goodnaturedly grinned feebly, and readily dived into the hatchway and do

one that was brought in. It's up in Dawson yet. It was brought in on the first rush in '98. Cost four hundred dollars in the States and two thousand dollars to haul up from Skagway. The last time I heard it, it was being mauled by a feenominon, who had

"It's a little enterprise of our own, and is to be put

s weight, "we don't have to handle it then,

und the vessel anchored in the picturesque har