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They immediately started up-stream, to return on foot 
over the Chilkoot pass. This left the following member- 
ship on the large raft : Mr. Button, Mrs. Button, Lieu- 
tenant Button, Robert, Florence, Hugh, Nathaniel, Chloe, 
Teddy, Solomon, Joe and Jim; two Chilkats, of whom 
one was a good interpreter ; Peeschee, and Carlo. 
On the afternoon of the seventeenth day from White 
Eiver, the whole party said good-by to the old raft, and 
landed with all their stores on the left bank of the Yukon. 
They were now exactly on the Arctic Circle, which 
runs through Fort Yukon at the extreme northern point 
of the " Great Arctic Bend " of the Yukon River. They 
did not visit the rough-looking buildings which consti- 
tuted the trading-post, but struck directly into the 
interior, heading due south. As they were now to travel 
entirely by Peeschee' s map, it will do no harm to take a 
fresh look at it, that we may follow them intelligently 
during their wanderings in the trackless wilderness, — 
the chosen home of the moose, the caribou, the wolf, of 
countless numbers of bears, and, as the native Alaskan 
devoutly believes, of spirits, who guard the higher moun- 
tain peaks against intrusion. 
The map was arranged with the north and south points 
exactly reversed : that is, the bottom of the map is north, 
and the top south ; of course, east and west change places 
accordingly. This must be carefully borne in mind in 
tracing the journey. 
Starting from the lower left-hand (or northeast) corner, 
