LIFE ON A YUKON TRAIL 



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CINCHING UP — TESLIN TRAIL 



emancipation. He brought the news that the Canadian govern- 

 ment had withdrawn its support from the railway project; that 

 the building of the road had consequently collapsed; that the 

 engineer corps had been ordered out of the country. The next 

 day we set out for Glenora, whence, after a wait of three days, 

 during which two of the men expended the earnings of more 

 than three months, we took steamer passage down the river. 



Jt is a pleasant thing to quit this country at any time, but 

 particularly so in summer. The month's toilsome journey up 

 the river over the ice is retraversed in 12 hours by the swift river 

 steamers that must at times outrun a 12-knot current in order 



