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We break camp at once," fairly snapped the Professor. "Gold man him heap fool," grunted the Indian. "No, not that, Anvik. He is gold-mad like all the rest of them," corrected Butler. "I hope I never shall get that way." "It can't be such bad fun to be gold-mad," argued Stacy, who usually wanted the other side of an argument.
Anvik, drawing his blanket still more closely about him, stepped over and threw some fresh sticks on the fire. The roaring by this time had become a thunderous, crashing noise that fairly deafened them. One had to shout to make himself heard. Fine particles, like sharp stones, began raining down upon them, stinging the faces, causing the boys to shield their eyes with their arms.
They built a fire and cooked a light meal, after which all hands lay down for an hour, with the exception of Anvik, who sat bunched in his now familiar brooding position, gazing off into space. As he sat thus, his far-seeing eyes discovered something, but he did not change countenance. He simply sat in dreamy-eyed silence. Perhaps what he saw did not interest him.
Now by "hot water" Tanana meant of course the liquor in his bottle, and when Anvik saw the young bear and the condition his father and brother were in, the lad immediately became very anxious, for the Eskimos are usually very careful not to kill a young bear without having first killed its mother.
"What is your name?" asked Tad. "Anvik. Me smart man, savvy? Me educate Jesuit Mission. Me pilot Chilkoot, White Horse, Caribou; me savvy all over." "Do you know how to cook?" questioned the Professor. "Heap cook all time. Me savvy cook." "You don't savvy any cooking for me," declared Stacy. "You will think differently about it when you are hungry.
O'Flynn drained his cup without waiting for the mockery of that first toast To our Enterprise although no one had taken more interest in the programme than O'Flynn. Benham talked about the Anvik saw-mill, and the money made in wood camps along the river. Nobody listened, though everyone else sat silent, smoking and sulkily drinking his punch.
"Call it an expedition to Anvik," urged Mac. "Load up there with reindeer meat, and come back. If we don't get some fresh meat soon, we'll be having scurvy." "What you're furr doin'," says O'Flynn for the twentieth time, "has niver been done, not ayven be Indians. The prastes ahl say so." "So do the Sour-doughs," said Mac. "It isn't as if you had dogs."
"There are large scows on the line, manned by ten men each and known as 'sturgeon heads. They are like canal boats, but are punted along and are used by the Hudson Bay people for taking forward supplies to the forts. The return trip to the United States is usually made by the Yukon steamers from Dawson City direct to St. Michael via the Yukon and Anvik River, thence by ocean steamer from St.
Remember, you are full of cheese and crackers now," answered Rector. "You have been out with the white men surveying, I am told," resumed the Professor. Anvik nodded solemnly. "Big snow no trail big mountains. White men get lost. Anvik find, Anvik know trail. Anvik big pilot. Me take um to Ikogimeut when Yukon ice get hard so man can go safe with dog team.
She's left her people and her gods, and I'll care for her. I saw how it hurt Orloff, and I laid my hand on his shoulder close to the neck. 'I distrust ye, and sure as Fate ye'll die the shocking death if ever harm comes to the little one. "That was the winter of the famine, though every winter was the same then, and I went to Anvik for grub took all the strong men and dogs in the village.
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