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Updated: May 14, 2025
"My teacher said he heard that at one Eskimo village a canoe came with whisky and the Eskimos pounded on a drum all night, and shouted," thought the lad. "When the morning came, the people were ashamed to look in the face of their teacher. My teacher said I must pray the dear Lord Christ to save Tanana and my father from drinking." And Anvik prayed in the dark igloo.
The next day came, and Anvik went again to school, but Tanana and the father went off to look at the ice-traps wherein Eskimos catch any stray wolves or foxes. When Anvik came back at night to the igloo, he met his father and Tanana rejoicing over a bear cub that they had killed.
And yet after all their further preparation and expense, each man kept saying in his heart, during those first days out from Anvik, that the journey would be easy enough but for their "comforts" the burden on the sled. By all the rules of arithmetic, the daily subtraction of three meals from the store should have lightened the load. It seemed to have the opposite effect.
At Anvik there came on board a little missionary teacher bound for Philadelphia, who had spent seven years with the natives in this Episcopal Mission without a vacation, and her stories were interesting in the extreme. Our days were uneventful.
They swung her in. A dozen hands caught at the painter and made fast. A young man stepped ashore and introduced himself as Van Alen, Benham's "Upper River pardner, on the way to Anvik." His companion, Donovan, was from Circle City, and brought appalling news.
Tad grabbed the boy by a shoulder, giving him a good shaking. "Stop that noise!" he commanded. "Don't yell until you are hurt." "I want to yell now. Maybe I can't yell after I'm hurt," returned Chunky. "Guide! What is it?" roared the Professor, the perspiration standing out over his face, as Tad observed when the fire blazed up. Anvik finished what he was doing before he answered.
The travellers themselves did some business with the A. C. agent, laying in supplies of fresh meat, and even augmenting their hitherto carefully restricted outfit, for they were going far beyond the reach of stores, or even of missions. Anvik was the last white settlement below Nulato; Nulato was said to be over two hundred miles to the northward.
Twice he went over the rugged landscape spread out before them with his searching glances. Suddenly his gaze halted and fixed on the peak of a low mountain off to the northwest of them. Butler shaded his eyes, and Anvik, observing the action, followed the direction of the boy's gaze. The guide made no move, nor did he change expression, but Tad saw that Anvik saw.
Anvik tell um stick um with knife if take." "You will do nothing of the sort. We will do all the punishing. Don't let me see you using your knife to stick anyone. Now, I guess you had better show us around. Take your pony and come along," rebuked Rector. "Where you want go?" "Oh, anywhere. You lead the way. Will anything here be taken while we are away?" questioned Ned. "No take.
He rushed to their side and shook them, but he could not rouse them. "Wake up! Wake up!" screamed Anvik. His mother caught one harpoon. Anvik seized another. The great paws were digging into the igloo! The dogs had attacked the bear, but she fought them off, killing some with the powerful blows of her claws. "Be ready, Anvik!" warned his mother. The side of the igloo gave way!
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