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surveyor's camp on the; klutlan glacier 



I'hotu Iji' F. Lambart 



were issued as needed. Had these sup- 

 plies not beeh at hand the Indians could 

 not have been controlled and a general 

 outbreak of smallpox all over the Yukon 

 would have been the result. 



Now came the problem of getting the 

 parties from the field without bringing 



them in contact with contagion. Pope 

 and I gathered in both the Canadian and 

 American parties and sent them across 

 an unknown country, to hit the river far 

 below the Rampart House. Craig stayed 

 on the lid. Then, while Craig and a few 

 of his party went into a two weeks' iso- 



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