

KLONUIKK. THE. 







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.. In making Malay kti u 



Is rriini tha- Calves be made to balance 



riU turn u. th, 



ie will come down. The lower portion 

 to be made somewhat loose, * t hat it bags 



.-.and thi- p. 



pen* i he amount of la<-k must be very 



how. id a lom 



dof an* stbks. Ifeteley 



. 

 a dummy before aajaytng to 



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cambric, and piano 

 6 bet. dummy before assaying 



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When the snow accumulate* on the kite au aa to 

 uay be partially shaken off by 

 ajritu i tiff b not at all 



dUBcult. and If lanterns arr aiiai-bso lo tbe kites, 

 they can be watched as readily a* h 



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I bbed as an I net nun ant for scbn U fie research, and 



M,.- n.jn.t-f f kit*- rti. r 01 HUl tij h " I 

 RlOMHkl. 1111.. a r 



. an.i ir u is loo neartncper- Territories. Canada, about which fold has been die- 

 taniaipuualy. The covered. Tbb stream b a tributary of Alaska's 



ikon, and was callr 



dian. 7V, r.,,, ,/,!. which means -rive? full of fish.* 

 h u a small, shallow stream about 40 yards vide el 

 r blue water, in which ttlmon 

 b abundant. The Indian name has been corrupted 



*hkh b now it 

 canted name of nd the region around it. 



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times the sin of the 



England States, hi- .,*. r.. . f paJd mwi i--n 

 in many parts of the basin of the Yukon, 



ami at the lower end, so as to determine 

 to be presented b? the kiUpUne to tbs n.d 



flsTE 



mad.- t- nrar th. h..n/.,,,Ul t h, 



..i if it is loo 

 fll 

 ^Kptr angle b al> 



.uid, lrtt.-r. Messrs. Fergussun and Clay 



rm of kite very n- 



lion. The directions given for making are to 

 UM- oroai tiola ol UM mm bofth, sod - proaj 

 ^ata|-n: is toil perc* 



. th- rr 



:.T a H.nl to it* rn.N. aii.l the bow must 

 ^^ually u-iit on ra-h HI,!,., which may be aooom- 



.1 > triauninf down and weak 

 at any |..i.,t where it btnd.n t.. lutlr. Tin- | 



the ends of the stick, which are notched to 



t. and Ijtmson have given much 



I .. 

 made in 



id form* of kitr>. ha 



ms connected with aerial navigation. Cha- 



i kite, baring tne lower MI r- 



face* it t Hilly at odtuse angles, the whole 



! being connected by a lazy -tongs frame, which ad- 



d of changes of form and posit i.-n ..f thooelb 



and planea. Millet built a ladder kiU- 



s the spaces between the planes being 

 feted r clearance for the wind. It is 



so arranged that the angles of the planes may be 



d with reference to the force of 

 Millet has also designed a mammoth observation 

 i- in truth a great ai y re- 



strained by its cables. It has four planes, the two 



which lies partly in Alaska and partly in 

 though the richest finds have been on 

 Bl .(.<:. 



The first white people who made their way into 

 th.- >nt,r.,r - f Alaska went there in the 



.mpany. It b believed that 

 they kn<-w ..f the existence of gold in that country, 

 though they did not suspect tne richness of the de- 

 posits, and, because miners would have disturbed 

 the animals from whose furs the Hudson Bay Com- 

 pany received a Urge r 



ing about the precious metal. In 1Mb Mr. Camp- 

 IN-II U-UMII exploration of the upper Liard and 



that farther on be 



i encounter cannibal*, he turned home again. 

 Yuk.'ii. n |t ..f the Hudson Bav Com- 

 pany, was established in 1M7 at tbe bead of Porru- 

 i.ut it had to be moved, as it was found 

 ales) soil. Another 



post-Port Selkirk-was established a year U 

 {he confluence of the Pellv an 



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.dson Bav Company 

 picked up a wounded man who was drifting in a 



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had hail two partners, one of whom 

 bad been killed by the Indian*, and that be bad 

 discovered gold, and be snowed some in proof of 

 bb assertion. A party of people at 1 

 and set out in a steamer, the -Louisa Downa." 

 with u to the place of bb 



discovery; but when they reached Taku his 

 ned to have deserted him. and when 

 ireatened with death be quite lost his 

 Keturning lo SiUa, he di 

 :im later, and befort 

 that there was gold where lie had 



nes being of nearly twice the arc* of the for- 



IMS in ,. r ,i, r that they may have tbe same 



y receive less wind. Tbe bas- 



ntaJninf the observer b so hung on a 



thnt it may be drawn forward, when th 



will descend, or backward, when the kite will rise, 



as a result of the change of :he plane*, 



Lamson has built peculiar tana o! large kites with 



,:.o u . . :. ' .- ; an 

 Gold waa discovered in British Columbia, in the 

 The Yukon region was 

 entered by miners in 1882. the entrance being made 

 by the Taiya pew. Several explorers entered cen- 

 tral A laska in the early Wa, and placer mining waa 

 oajrifedcaw&m^swmssonthi - 

 Pally. HootalinKa, and upper Yukon rivers. On 

 the Stewart in I8 about 40 miners were rasMJ 

 one man being $4.000. 

 the Yukon 



; ^VWBI mum *ww ww ~mv 



cold, the highest earning of 01 

 The first real excitement in 



