Travels in Alaska 



son, assuring her that he would faithfully share every 

 danger that he encountered, and if need be die in his 

 defense. 



"We shall see whether or not you die," she said, 

 and turned away. 



Toyatte also encountered domestic difficulties. 

 When he stepped into the canoe I noticed a cloud of 

 anxiety on his grand old face, as if his doom now 

 drawing near was already beginning to overshadow 

 him. When he took leave of his wife, she refused to 

 shake hands with him, wept bitterly, and said that 

 his enemies, the Chilcat chiefs, would be sure to kill 

 him in case he reached their village. But it was not on 

 this trip that the old hero was to meet his fate, and 

 when we were fairly free in the wilderness and a gentle 

 breeze pressed us joyfully over the shining waters 

 these gloomy forebodings vanished. 



We first pursued a westerly course, through Sumner 

 Strait, between Kupreanof and Prince of Wales Is- 

 lands, then, turning northward, sailed up the Kiku 

 Strait through the midst of innumerable picturesque 

 islets, across Prince Frederick's Sound, up Chatham 

 Strait, thence northwestward through Icy Strait and 

 around the then uncharted Glacier Bay. Thence re- 

 turning through Icy Strait, we sailed up the beautiful 

 Lynn Canal to the Davidson Glacier and the lower 

 village of the Chilcat tribe and returned to Wrangell 

 along the coast of the mainland, visiting the icy Sum 

 Dum Bay and the Wrangell Glacier on our route. 

 Thus we made a journey more than eight hundred 

 miles long, and though hardships and perhaps dan- 



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