CHAPTER VI 



" But the stars throng out in their glory, 

 And they sing of the God in man ; 

 They sing of the Mighty Master, 

 Of the loom his fingers span, 

 Where a star or a soul is a part of the whole 

 And weft in the wondrous plan." 



August 23. Clear, cold weather. Hoyt and the 

 writer plan to take Baker as guide and George 

 Wright to look after the horses and to make a five 

 days' trip up the Klutlan Glacier, going by horse- 

 back down Bull Creek, across the St. Clair, then over 

 the mountains to Count Creek, thence down Count 

 Creek to the Generc River, and up the Generc to its 

 source in Klutlan Glacier. 



In addition to our saddle horses we took one 

 pack animal loaded with our bedding, tea pail, fry- 

 ing pan, and axe, besides a simple grub supply of 

 tea, sugar, raisins, flour, and grease for baking and 

 cooking, and started down Bull Creek to the St. 

 Clair, where we stopped for lunch. Baker had 

 never crossed the mountains between St. Clair and 

 Count Creek, but Jack Hayden told us not to at- 

 tempt the low pass as it was a tundra morass so soft 

 that we could never get the horses across. Hay- 



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