IN THE ALASKA-YUKON GAMELANDS 



tant, leaving everything. Being compelled to 

 face the wind in order to get back up on the 

 higher ice and out of the crevasses, the dogs 

 would not follow. 



"Our clothes, moccasions and mittens were 

 wet. We had no more than got out of our robes 

 before our clothing was frozen stiff. My parka 

 bulged out in front and froze as hard as a board. 

 Every time I took a step my foot would hit the 

 bottom; then the top would hit me in the face; 

 this cut like a knife, until my face looked like a 

 butcher's block. Campbell thought I was bleed- 

 ing at the lungs and really was worried about 

 me. Of course, he told me this later. 



"Where the snow had blown off it made it im- 

 possible to stand up. Often we had to crawl or 

 roll along these places. We at last reached the 

 old barn beside the glacier (at McLeod's), where 

 we got a fire started, but it was impossible to 

 thaw out here. The wind was blowing so hard 

 we had to beat it down to the old cabin called 

 the Homestead, distance about four miles. I 

 knew that my hands and feet were frozen and 

 that Campbell's feet were also frozen, but it was 

 no use to idle along. There was but one thing to 

 do, and that was to get to the cabin and start a 

 fire and save as much as possible of our hands 

 and feet. We had left our snowshoes, and this 

 made it harder for us, as the snow was about 

 three feet deep, and I judge it took us at least 

 two hours to make this four miles. 



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