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LIFE ON A YUKON TRAIL 



PACK TRAIN ASCENDING TO FIRST SUMMIT — TESI.IN TRAIL 



and slyly traded to the Klooches in exchange for moccasins and 

 leggins as a highly prized brand of American wine. 



As we broke camp to begin the nine-mile climb to the first 

 summit, three of our men rolled their blankets and bade us fare- 

 well. Their secession was due to unpleasantness over the duties 

 of flunky to the cook, for which seven of us had been detailed. 

 " We did not come into this country to act the part of scullion 

 to a sheep-herder," said they. So they left the party to become 

 professional packers, which is harder on one's back, but not so 

 trying to one's pride. Soon after this John, our ingenious cook, 

 left the party as a result of a little unpleasantness with Dan, the 



