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LIFE ON A YUKON TRAIL 



arrival of steamers at Glenora, and told of the vast accumulation 

 of freight, and of the congestion of Klondikers at that point. 

 Many of these men, it seemed, had failed in their attempt to reach 

 Glenora over the ice. They had been forced to camp on the river 

 bank until the ice broke up. In this situation, their horses, on 

 which they had relied on packing their outfits to Teslin, had per- 

 ished. On arrival in Glenora by steamer the men had either 

 sacrificed their provisions and were pushing into the Yukon with 



WHEELBARROW WITH LOAD OF 300 POUNDS 



only a few months' stores, or else were sitting idly by their out- 

 fits on the banks of the Stikine. 



One swarthy frontiersman was taking in 350 pounds, distrib- 

 uted on the backs of himself, his partner, his dog, and his squaw. 

 Others, with rude wheelbarrows, were making five or six miles 

 per day with a load of 250 pounds. Usually a well-trained dog 

 tugged indefatigably in the traces ahead. The narrowness of 

 the pathway absolutely excluded any ordinary two-wheeled ve- 

 hicle from the trail. The exigencies of the situation brought 

 out some remarkable one-wheeled concerns. The " go-devils," 



