Sum Dum Bay 



up and down, thirty small glaciers back of the walls, 

 and we saw three of the first order; also thirty-seven 

 cascades and falls, counting only those large enough 

 to make themselves heard several miles. The whole 

 bay, with its rocks and woods and ice, reverberates 

 with their roar. How many glaciers may be dis- 

 closed in the other great arm that I have not seen as 

 yet, I cannot say, but, judging from the bergs it sends 

 down, I guess not less than a hundred pour their 

 turbid streams into the fiord, making about as many 

 joyful, bouncing cataracts. 



About noon we began to retrace our way back into 

 the main fiord, and arrived at the gold-mine camp 

 after dark, rich and weary. 



On the morning of August 21 I set out with my 

 three Indians to explore the right arm of this noble 

 bay, Mr. Young having decided, on account of mis- 

 sion work, to remain at the gold-mine. So here is 

 another fine lot of Sum Dum ice, thirty-five or 

 forty square miles of bergs, one great glacier of the 

 first class descending into the fiord at the head, the 

 fountain whence all these bergs were derived, and 

 thirty-one smaller glaciers that do not reach tide- 

 water; also nine cascades and falls, large size, and 

 two rows of Yosemite rocks from three to four 

 thousand feet high, each row about eighteen or 

 twenty miles long, burnished and sculptured in the 

 most telling glacier style, and well trimmed with 

 spruce groves and flower gardens; a' that and more 

 of a kind that cannot here be catalogued. 



For the first five or six miles there is nothing ex- 



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