102 THE UPPER YUKON 



stition by ascending the famous "Nazarhat" 

 Glacier, which in one portion of it has a deep 

 depression or cavity. The pair of lovers met 

 with no difficulties whatever until from the 

 top of the rim they looked down into the won- 

 ders of this "big hole." They were then 

 speedily entranced, and became rooted to the 

 spot. Neither of them being able to break 

 the spell, they were both frozen to death, as 

 they were incapable of flight. Their bodies 

 were soon turned into gigantic pillars of ice, 

 which remain to this day as everlasting monu- 

 ments to warn all Indians from defying the 

 stern decrees of "the Great Spirit." Thus 

 runs the legend, and for this reason the Indi- 

 ans give a wide birth to glaciers. 



For several days we had been hunting in 

 the close neighborhood of a glacier which 

 formerly filled a huge gorge shaped like an 

 inverted letter "V," but which has, during the 

 ages since its creation, been slowly shrinking, 

 so that now it forms a gap through which flow 

 the warm south winds from the coast dis- 

 tant say eighty miles. The well-marked 

 trails of caribou and mountain sheep on the 

 snow covering this glacier could easily be 

 seen from the top of other mountains. 

 Without expressing the desire, I often 



