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southmost of the great glaciers of the first class that flow into 
tide water. 
Gliding northward your attention will be turned to the moun- 
tains of the Coast range, now for the first time near and in full 
view. The ic}" canons open before you as j'ou pass in regular 
order showing their wealth. Now a bold headland will hold the 
eye, or some mountain of surpassing beaut}^ of sculpture, or one 
of the larger glaciers seen directly in front, its gigantic arms and 
fingers clasping an entire group of peaks, and its broad, white 
trunk sweeping down through the woods, its crj'stal current 
breaking here and there in shattered cascades, with azure light 
in the crevasses, making you deplore your inability to stop and 
enjoy it all in cordial nearness. It was from one of these glaciers 
to the south of cape Fanshaw that the Alaska Ice company 
loaded their ships for California and the Sandwich islands. 
In a few hours 3'ou come in sight of more icebergs. The}' are 
derived from four large glaciers that discharge into the heads of 
the long arms of Holkam bay, or Sum Dum. Never shall I for- 
get the wild adventurous days spent there in the summers of 1879 
and 1880. 
At the mouth of the Taku inlet you encounter another fleet of 
drifting icebergs from the grand Taku glacier, twenty miles dis- 
tant. 
On one of my early exploring trips I stopped at an Indian 
village here and found it deserted. Not a single person was left 
on guard. For these people are so rich they have little to lose. 
My Indians said that the inhabitants were away catching and 
drying salmon. All the Indian villages are thus abandoned at 
regular periods every summer, while everybody goes to fishing, 
berrying and hunting-stations . occupying each in succession for 
a few weeks. Then after the summer's work is done, the winter 
supply of salmon dried and packed, fish and seal oil stored in 
boxes, berries and spruce bark beaten and pressed, their hunts 
after wild goats, sheep and bears, brought to a close, their 
trading-trips made, and the year's stock of quarrels with the 
neighboring tribes settled, then, all at home in their big block- 
houses, they give themselves to pleasure, feasting, dancing, 
visiting, speech- making, drinking, etc. 
The Taku inlet contains many glaciers, one of which belongs 
to the first-class. It makes a grand display- of itself as it comes 
