I SAW THE SUN. 



CHAPTER XII. 



FROM CANDLE TO FORT GIBBON. 



Leave Candle Crossing Seward Peninsula Extreme Cold Weather 

 Counsil Nome Leave Nome A Blizzard Crossing Norton Bay 

 Caught by the rising Water Telegraph Stations Kaltag The Yukon 

 Over Nulato Portage Stormy Weather on the River Trading 

 Stations on the Yukon Fort Gibbon. 



A " MUSHER " (professional dog driver) had come from Nome 

 with a passenger and was going back, so we went together. 

 His name was Sheldon, and he was a pleasant man as well as a 

 splendid traveller. He taught me many things about travelling 

 which I had never known before, among others that dogs could 

 be trained to go in the desired direction without a man ahead 

 of them. We started at 10 A.M. on Sunday, the 2gth, and 

 were shortly among the trees of the Keewalik River. And 

 there, for the first time since I left Point Barrow, I saw the 

 sun. It was quite high in the sky, so it was only the thick 

 and warm weather we had had of late which had prevented 

 my seeing it. 



What a difference between travelling inland and out on the 



