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are the winter dress of different animals not 

 winter and summer coats of the same animal. 

 In 1 89 1 nine thousand white foxskins were 

 sent to London by the Hudson's Bay Com- 

 pany. The white fox is found as far north as 

 any animal life." 



This tribe of Indians whose village we 

 passed through twice, bear a striking likeness 

 to the Japanese, so much so that it is some- 

 times difBcult to differentiate between a Japa- 

 nese immigrant and a native of this tribe. 

 Learned ethnologists believe that in the re- 

 mote past at least some of the Indian tribes 

 of the Yukon came from Japan by way of Si- 

 beria, crossing Behring Sea on the ice and set- 

 tling there to hunt and fish. 



They have traditions that seem analogous 

 to those that pertain to the Jewish race. They 

 have one well-defined tradition of the flood 

 which is well worth deep and earnest consid- 

 eration. This is the story as given by an In- 

 dian woman, the wife of our Chief, who 

 claims that it has come down from generation 

 to generation among her own people. 



''In the Yukon there were twelve large 

 mountains that carried their peaks up to the 

 very sky; one of them is even now called Jubi- 

 lee Mountain. It is located near the center 



