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efforts and inch by inch we crawled up through 

 the boiling, hissing waters. 



Passing out of the canon the character of the 

 country changes, being decidedly more open, the 

 canon marking the divide from the Coast Range 

 of mountains to the beginning of the Cassiars, 

 rolling mountains flanked with glaciers terminat- 

 ing in ragged gray peaks, while the more level 

 spaces were overgrown with poplar and higher up 

 lay the thick, deep, moss-covered slopes. 



On the fifth day we reached the dangerous 

 Glenora Rapids, only ten miles from Telegraph 

 Creek, and it took us several hours to essay this 

 most difficult stretch of the river. Here it was 

 that so many lives were lost during the Klondike 

 rush and many a cherished hope sank in its seeth- 

 ing waters. 



As we rounded a point in the afternoon the 

 little buildings of Telegraph Creek came into 

 view. Our landing was attended by all of the 

 white inhabitants that numbered nearly a half 

 dozen in all most of the numerous Tal-tan In- 

 dians and scores of big powerful looking dogs, 

 huskies, Mackenzie River dogs, Malamutes and 

 various other breeds all with a greater or less 

 strain of the wolf in them. These strange dogs 

 that fiction has glorified so highly held a peculiar 



