THE ST1KINE RIVER IN lSdS 



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steamers were forced to wait for the fury to subside and to " line 

 up" by reeling in on the capstan wire cables fastened, to the 

 largest trees ashore. There was a deafening roar from the boil- 

 ers and the boat shook as if all its upper works would be loosened, 

 while it worked its way upward, dipping, careening, quivering 

 in all its solid frame, and shipping waves at the bows, and there 

 was more personal excitement and tension in this struggle with 

 the Stikine's fury than we had any idea of until we came out to 

 wider and slower reaches and tied up for the night. 



GLENORA FROM 'IMF. l.ANDIM 



We were then "over the range,'" "east of the mountains, '' 

 "across the divide,"' and there was a great difference in the 

 character of the country. There were grassy benches and hills, 

 stretches of burned forests, and every sign of a scorching, dry, 

 interior climate. The Kloochman's canon, named because the 

 Indian canoeman, exhausted with bis day of frantic tracking 

 and paddling through the Little canon, leaves this bit of navi- 

 gation to his kloochman, or squaw, was only a stiff millrace of 

 water running for one or two hundred yards between green 

 banks. We easily surmounted its slope, and turning sharply 



