CHAPTER V. 



HOW WE FAKED IN THE YUKON 

 MOUNTAINS. 



After leaving the camp where we had got our 

 first supply of meat, we towed our canoes up 

 the river for four more days. The water was 

 bitterly cold, and when we had to stand still 

 for any length of time, with the icy stream 

 above our knees, as was often the case when 

 hauling the canoes round rocks or wood jambs, 

 our legs got quite numbed. 



The weather was at first fine, and the sun 

 quite warm in the middle of the day, and the 

 midges were then very numerous and irritating, 

 especially in the afternoons and evenings. At 

 nights the thermometer at this time registered 



