1 84 THE UPPER YUKON 



ceeded in getting the noose around his body. 

 The men above pulled and hauled, but the 

 man was so securely lodged in among the ice 

 sheets, that he would have been pulled in two 

 if they had continued their exertions. They 

 lowered food to him, and talked with him, as 

 he could easily hear them. From below he 

 told the men above to write down his last will 

 and testament, and thus he advised them what 

 to do for his wife and children and how cer- 

 tain matters had to be adjusted. On the sec- 

 ond day of his imprisonment his voice gradu- 

 ally became weaker and the last thing he said 

 was that he was "about done for," as he knew 

 that he was practically frozen through. He 

 is undoubtedly still lying in his lonely ice 

 grave, and his body may never be seen again, 

 as the Scolli Glacier is so far away from civi- 

 lization that but comparatively few people- 

 cross it in a year's time. 



The Slims Glacier, in whose icy depths the 

 Slims River and the O'Connor River both 

 have their source, is also charged with being 

 the cause of a human tragedy. 



Two years ago a young man on hunting 

 bent visited this weird region. He was in pur- 

 suit of wild goats and had climbed to the roof 

 of the glacier, and from there still higher to 



