DAWSON CITY. 141 



To-day Dawson City is an attractive little 

 frontier town with a population of about three 

 thousand five hundred souls, situated on the 

 eastern bank of the Yukon just where the 

 waters of the world-renowned Klondyke River 

 join the greater stream. It boasts a Carnegie 

 library, an up-to-date school, quite an imposing 

 government house, extensive police barracks, 

 and several hotels where good accommodation 

 can be obtained at very moderate rates. 



Dawson City is, I believe, something like 

 seven thousand five hundred miles from London, 

 but it can now be reached in ease and comfort 

 by rail and steamboat in about three weeks, 

 allowing fourteen days for the journey from 

 England to A^ancouver, four days from Van- 

 couver to Skagway, and three or four days 

 from the latter place to Dawson City. 



The voyage up the Pacific coast, should the 

 weather be fine, is a perfect dream of beauty 

 the whole way. The channels through which 

 the comfortable passenger steamers, both of the 

 Canadian and American lines, wind their way 

 between the mainland and the multitude of 



