286 THE POLAR WORLD. 



for a thirty-pound salmon ; and, says Mr. Whymper, " tobacco went farther 

 than we had ever known it to do before." On the 23d of July they reached 

 the mouth of the river, whence two days' sailing up tKe coast brought them to 

 St. Michael's. The whole voyage of 1300 miles between Fort Yukon and St. 



