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CONQUERING THE ARCTIC ICE 



But only too soon I had to leave this pleasant place. The 

 stage only left once a week, and I had already idled away far 

 too much time on the trail, and, consequently, when the stage 



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STRAIGHT AND BARE TRUNKS. 



started for Fairbanks on the following morning, February 24, I 

 was one of its six passengers. 



We followed an inland trail, and the country was very 

 uninteresting, the more so as the weather was thick and it was 

 snowing for the greater part of the day. We drove through 

 mile after mile of forests which some years ago had been burnt 

 down, and nothing was left but the tall bare trunks, charred 



