"Travels in Alaska 



ashamed to think that I had been sitting warm and 

 dry at my fire while you were out in the storm; there- 

 fore I made haste to strip off my dry clothing and put 

 on these wet rags to share your misery and show how 

 much I love you." 



I had another long talk with Ka-hood-oo-shough 

 the next day. 



"I am not able," he said, "to tell you how much 

 good your words have done me. Your words are 

 good, and they are strong words. Some of my people 

 are foolish, and when they make their salmon-traps 

 they do not take care to tie the poles firmly together, 

 and when the big rain-floods come the traps break 

 and are washed away because the people who made 

 them are foolish people. But your words are strong 

 words and when storms come to try them they will 

 stand the storms." 



There was much hand shaking as we took our leave 

 and assurances of eternal friendship. The grand old 

 man stood on the shore watching us and waving fare- 

 well until we were out of sight. 



We now steered for the Muir Glacier and arrived 

 at the front on the east side the evening of the third, 

 and camped on the end of the moraine, where there 

 was a small stream. Captain Tyeen was inclined to 

 keep at a safe distance from the tremendous threat- 

 ening cliffs of the discharging wall. After a good deal 

 of urging he ventured within half a mile of them, on 

 the east side of the fiord, where with Mr. Young I 

 went ashore to seek a camp-ground on the moraine, 

 leaving the Indians in the canoe. In a few minutes 



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