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of the Quick, but also of my attempts to arrange else- 

 where for transportation. 



During that anxious period, I made two short trips 

 for the purpose of fishing for graylings in the lakes and 

 rivers beyond the summit of White Pass, both with in- 

 different success; and also a third trip up the Katzehin 

 River, to find black bears, which were said to be numer- 

 ous there, and to see the white goats, which are very 

 abundant in the mountains. 



June 14. My friend C. E. Wynn- Johnson and I 

 started on this trip by going first to Haines Mission in a 

 small steamer, which later brought us to the mouth of the 

 Katzehin, a glacial river entering Lynn Canal sixteen 

 miles below Skagway. About noon we were landed at 

 low tide well out on the sand flats, and immediately 

 began to track our Peterborough canoe up one of the 

 numerous channels of the river. 



The Katzehin River flows from the Meade Glacier 

 which lies in ranges fifteen miles from the coast. With 

 a heavy volume of water, it rushes in abrupt descent 

 through a wide glacial valley, the floor of which has been 

 smoothed by the swift waters to a rough bar, over which 

 the river divides into numerous channels, nearly all indis- 

 tinguishable from the main one. 



After working through the flats, which at low tide 

 cover an area of several square miles, and entering the 

 main river where it flows in a single channel for half 

 a mile or more, we were immediately enclosed by high 

 mountains which surround the valley. Above this, sev- 

 eral channels were encountered, all flowing to a junction, 



