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CHAPTER XIII.
UNALACHLEET-NORTON SOUND.
Indian town-hall - Preparations for dance - Smoke-consuming Indians
- Feast - Dance - Chorus - The Malemutes and Kaveaks - The chiefs -" Parka-mania" -Erection of quarters - Preparations for sledge journey  ........                          Page 141
CHAPTER XIV.
SLEDGE JOURNEY TO THE YUKON.
Routes to the Yukon - Sledges and dogs - Our start - Our party-Unalachleet River - Brought to a standstill-Dogs desert-- Ingelete Indians - Underground houses, &c. - Beans versus rice Indian cleanliness - Medical aid - Ulukuk - The river - Indian trading..  .. ..  ..  ..  ..  .. ..   .  ....          148
CHAPTER XV.
SLEDGE JOURNEY TO THE YUKON.-Continued.
Cross the Ulukuk River - Walking on snow shoes - Ulukuk Mountains - Land travelling - Versola Sofka - Patent camp - Our frozen breath- Indian honesty - The use of snow shoes- Warm springs - First glimpse of the Yukon - Coltog - Old " Stareek"
-Travel on the Yukon - Alikoffs "barabba" - Meet a Russian sledge-train - Arrival at Nulato  ............         159
CHAPTER XVI.
LIFE AT NULATO-YUKON RIVER.
First explorers of the Yukon - Nulato - Our quarters - Water
sledge - Fish traps- Winter sketching--Frozen provisions -