ALASKA AND THE KLONDIKE. 



wise caution detained iis here for the niglit, and the incoming of a 

 solitary traveler warned us that a blizzard had struck the summit of the 

 pass, and buried it beneath a heavy mantle of snow. Had we been a 

 day earlier we might have crossed dry shod, a very exceptional condi- 



CuTTiNG Grade for the Pacific and Arctic Railway — Tunnel Muintain, White Pass 



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tion at this time of the year, but now the possibilities of a struggle 

 gravely presented themselves. A light frost of the night had fairly 

 congealed the soil, but the lake did not carry enough surface ice to in- 

 terfere with the progress of a scow, and we reached the farther end 

 without difficulty. The two-mile portage to Crater Lake w^as largely 



