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Michael to San Francisco." The following letter is interesting to the prospector as showing the difficulties to overcome up the Taiya Pass to Lake Lindeman. Winnipeg, July 27, 1897. A letter has been received from George McLeod, one of the members of the Winnipeg party of gold hunters that left here recently for the Yukon.
I left them at Fort Chipewyan in fairly good condition, and, with a little painting, they would go through the same ordeal again. "After getting all my outfit over to the foot of Lake Lindeman I set some of the party to pack it to the head of Lake Bennet.
He knew he was not likely to find any use for it in shooting game, but he grimly observed that if a pistol should prove handy, the larger weapon was apt to prove much more so. The Indian who engaged to take them to the foot of Lake Lindeman was old, but wiry and tough, and understood his business. He could speak a few words of English, which were enough for his purposes.
"That," replied Tim, "marks the grave of some poor chap that died on his way to the Klondike. Do ye obsarve that cairn of stones a bit beyont?" Each saw it. "That marks anither grave; and ye may call to mind that we obsarved more of the same along Lake Lindeman." Such was the fact, though this was the first reference to them.
It was not until considerably after daylight that Jeff awoke and started a new fire, with which to prepare their breakfast, and when that was ready the boys were roused from slumber. They were now within three miles of Lake Lindeman, a body of water five miles in length, and the journey was speedily made.
McLeod says the worry in getting over the pass is terrible, and he has no desire to repeat the experience. He advises all who go in to have their goods packed all the way from Dyea to Lake Lindeman. It costs 17 or 18 cents per pound for packing. McLeod expected that Klondyke would not be reached before July 25.
He spends one week at Lake Lindeman making his boat and getting ready for the long trip down the waterways to Dawson City, the heart of the Klondyke region. The trip through Lake Lindeman is short, the lake being only five miles long. At the foot of the lake he must portage to Lake Bennet, the portage however being very short, less than a mile.
The survey was made up to the head of the Inlet on the 2d of June. Preparations were then commenced for taking the supplies and instruments over the coast range of mountains to the head of Lake Lindeman on the Lewes River. Commander Newell kindly aided me in making arrangements with the Indians, and did all he could to induce them to be reasonable in their demands.
This was extremely laborious work, and the men were so used up working in the scorching sun that they were compelled to work at nights and sleep during the day. Two days after the descent began the sleighs were abandoned, and the men packed the goods for three miles and a half. They were fortunate in securing the services of a man who had two horses to convey the goods to Lake Lindeman.
He now starts for Lake Lindeman from the head of the Pass, a distance of eight miles the distance from Dyea to Lake Lindeman being 31 miles. At Lake Lindeman he commences to make his boat, for which he has brought the proper supplies in his outfit, with the exception of the timber, which he finds at Lake Lindeman.
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