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millan River. I might have travelled the three 

 hniidred miles down the Yukon fromWhitehorse 

 to Selkirk by steamer, and saved a couple of 

 days by so doing ; but this would have cost 

 me at least one hundred dollars ; and as I had a 

 good twenty-foot canoe, to carry me down the 

 swift-flowing river, and the weather was fine, 

 I had no hesitation in commencing my canoe 

 journey from Whitehorse. 



For the loan of the canoe which I used on 

 this trip, I was indebted to the great kindness 

 of Mr. H. Wheeler, the traffic manager of the 

 White Pass and Yukon Railway, who did 

 everything possible to assist me. 



Of the two men who accompanied me, the 

 one, Charles Coghlan, had been witli Mr. 

 Sheldon and myself up the north fork of the 

 Macmillan two years previoush", and I, there- 

 fore, knew him well. He is not onlj?- a splendid 

 specimen of a man physically, almost literally 

 as strong as a bull, but he is also one of the 

 best tempered and most good natured fellows 

 I have ever met, never tiring of hard work or 

 losing his cheerful good spirits. 



