ON THE ICE TRAIL 



THE ICE TRAIL ON THE YUKON 



By JOHN B. BURNHAM 



HE exodus of four hundred miners from Daw- 

 son City to the coast over the ice in the 

 winter of 1897-98 is one of the most pic- 

 turesque features in the whole graphic his- 

 tory of the Klondike. A midwinter journey 

 of six hundred miles in a country where 

 minus temperatures of sixty and seventy degrees are 

 recorded is hard enough at best, but when supplies have 

 to be carried for this distance the difficulties are vastly 

 increased. Many of the men carried their food on sleds, 

 which they drew themselves, and some even packed it on 

 their backs, and at night slept without stoves or tents on 



