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Deer Corral, Northern Alaska
Identifier: frozenzoneitsexp00hyde (find matches)
Title: The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Hyde, Alexander, 1814-1881 Baldwin, Abraham Chittenden, 1804-1887, joint author Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889, joint author Shields, Charles W. (Charles Woodruff), 1825-1904
Subjects: Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 Polaris (Ship)
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. (etc.) Columbia book company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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d therewas no light but the twilight. Fort Yukon wasreached on June 23d, the party having traveled sixhundred miles in twenty-nine days. The Fort is atrading-post of the Hudsons Bay Company, who buythe privilege of holding it within the bounds of Alaska.The most striking scene at this place is the fur-room,in which can be seen thousands of marten-skins hang-ing from the beams, and huge piles of common furs. On the 8th of July, the party began to descend theriver. The current bore them on at the rate of ahundred miles a day. They landed only two orthree times a day to prej)are their tea and fish, andmaking six liundred miles in about six days,arrived at Nulato. Here, receiving orders to returnto St. Michael, they went on down the river. Theregion below Nulato is poorer in vegetation and isseldom visited by travelers. The northern or Aphoonmouth is the easiest navigated, and through it thetravelers reached the sea, liaving come from FortYukon thirteen hundred miles in fifteen and a half
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TEAVELS IIS ALASKA. 681 days. Two days more of sailing brought tliem toSt. Michael. The Co-Yukon Indians living near the Yukonabove Nn.lato, are more savage than most tribes, andlightly value human life. Tombs at Nulato stillmark the massacre of forty Indians and part of theguard in 1851. The dead are interred in oblongboxes raised on posts, and are mourned by the womenfor a year. The people superstitiously save bones ofanimals, thinking that if they were given to the dogsor burned, their fishing and hunting could not besuccessful. They catch reindeer by driving them intoan enclosure, whose sides are made of stakes withloops between them, where they are shot. Intemper-ance is almost unknown among these Indians. Theybarter furs for porcelain beads, combs, looking-glassesand knives. In the spring they all wear woodengoggles when hunting or traveling, to shield theireyes from the blinding glare of the snow; narrowslits before the eyes give sufficient light for sight. The Co-Yukon dialect