FEBRUARY 22, 18S84.] 
passages traversed by the steamers plying to 
Alaskan ports farther south. Fish were absent 
in these glacier-fed streams and lakes, but we 
managed to kill a few dusky grouse (Tetrao 
obscurus) and green-winged teal (Nettion caro- 
linensis) to vary the usual government ration ; 
but all were tough beyond measure, it being 
their breeding-season. Over Lake Lindeman 
were seen sea-gulls and the graceful little arctic 
tern that I recognized as an old and garrulous 
companion. Of large game, a small black bear 
cub was the only thing seen; although moun- 
tain goats were abundant a short distance back 
in the hills, one having been seen by us in the 
Perrier Pass. 
The next day we commenced building our 
raft on Lake Lindeman ; although the logs were 
very small, consisting of dwarfed spruce and 
contorted pine. Fifteen by thirty feet was 
considered large enough until we commenced 
to load it, when we were forced, during a 
heavy gale on the 15th, to send it ahead with 
but half a load and three men, the remainder 
SCIENCE. 
reached, where birchbark canoes commence. 
The remainder of the party took a whole day 
in struggling overland through the tangled 
brush and marshes of the gullies, and climbing 
the steep, smooth granite banks that separate 
them from the ridges covered with a labyrinth 
of fallen timber. 
At its northern end Lake Lindeman is 
drained by a small river fifty to sixty yards 
in width, full of rapids and cascades, and 
about a mile in length, where it empties into 
a large lake that I named after Mr. James 
Gordon Bennett, a well-known patron of Amer- 
ican geographical research. 
The raft was shot through the connecting 
river, June 16, and the dimensions enlarged to 
fifteen by forty; although, counting all pro- 
jections, it really came nearer sixteen by 
forty-two. Around this series of rapids the 
Indians portage their effects on their backs ; 
and I named it Payer Portage, after Lieut. 
Payer of the Austro-Hungarian expedition of 
1872-74. By the 17th of June, at midnight 
LAKE LINDEMAN. 
The view is taken from the upper (southern) end of Payer Portage, looking (south) toward Kotusk Mountains. 
Perrier Pass is 
on the extreme right wrapped in fog. There are higher ice-capped mountains in the distance, not shown here. 
of the material being stowed in two dilapidated 
wooden canoes, — fair samples of the very few 
that exist from here until old Fort Selkirk is 
it was light enough to read print like that 
of Science, and continued so through the 
month, except on very cloudy nights. Har- 
