298 The American Geologist. May. i89a 
with every howl of the storm, when I reminded them that storms, 
did not last forever ; the sun would shine again; that with me 
they need fear nothing, because good luck followed me always, 
though for many years 1 had wandered in higher mountains than 
these, and in far wilder storms; that Heaven cared for us and 
guided us all more than we knew, etc. This small speech did 
good. With smiling reassurance Kadechan said that he liked to 
travel with fearless people; and dignified Toyette declared he 
would venture on, for m}" "wa-wa was delait" (my talk was ver}^ 
good). 
We urged our way against ice and weather to the extreme head 
of the bay and around it, going up one side and down the other 

and succeeded in reaching all the main glaciers excepting those 
at the head of frozen inlets. 
Next to the Muir, the largest of the glaciers enters the bay at 
its extreme northwestern extension. Its broad, majestic current, 
fed by unnumbered tributaries, is divided at the front by an 
island, and from its long, blue wall the icebergs plunge and roar 
in one eternal storm, sounding on day and night, winter and 
summer, and from century to century. Five or six glaciers of 
the first class discharge into the bay, the number varying as the 
several outlets of the ice fields are regarded as distinct glaciers, 
or one. About an equal number of the second class descend 
with broad imposing currents to the level of the bay without 
entering it to discharge bergs; while the tributaries of these and 
the smaller glaciers are innumerable. 
The clouds cleared away on the morning of the 27th, and we 
had glorious views of the ice-rivers pouring down from their 
spacious fountains on either hand, and of the grand assemblage 
of mountains immaculate in their robes of new snow, and bathed 
and transfigured in the most impressively lovely sunrise light I 
ever beheld. Memorable, too, was the starry splendor of a night 
spent on the east side of the bay, in front of two large glaciers 
north of the Muir. Venus seemed half as big as the moon, while 
the berg-covered bay, glowing and sparkling with responsive 
light, seemed another sky of equal glory. Shortly after three 
o'clock in the morning I climbed the dividing ridge between the 
two glaciers, 2,000 feet above camp, for the sake of the night 
views; and how great was the enjo3'ment in the solemn silence 
between those two radiant skies no words mav tell. 
