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Updated: May 12, 2025
I went out this morning and bought a student lamp at the store, paying six dollars and a half for it. This, with my case of coal oil, will light my room nicely, besides giving a good deal of heat. The Marshal and men are home from the Koyuk River, after four weeks of winter "mushing," and say nothing about their trip. They did not manage to pull harmoniously together, and Mr.
That four miles was all we made the next day, back and forth, back and forth, wearily tramping it to and fro, dogs and men alike exhausted with the toil. The hatefulness of dog mushing usually appears under such circumstances; the whip is constantly plied, the senseless objurgations rise shriller and fuller.
At noon the thermometer stood at 17° above zero and it was but four days ago that we recorded 70° below! It will be readily understood how such wide and sudden ranges of temperature add to the inconvenience and discomfort of mushing.
Then Morton, who had never been west of Pittsburg, sang somewhat in this wise the epic of the hunting he had never done: Alone. Among the pines. Dead o' winter. Only one shell in his rifle. Cold of winter. Snow deep snow. Snow-shoes. Hiking along reg'lar mushing packing grub to the lumber-camp. Way up near the Canadian border. Cold, terrible cold. Stars looked like little bits of steel. Mr.
We have read, slept, eaten, and fed the fires; with only one man, three girls and myself in the house. At ten in the evening G. and B. came in from a five days "mushing" trip on the trails, being nearly starved and frozen. They were covered with snow and icicles, their shirts and coats stiff with frost from steam of their bodies, as they ran behind the sled to keep warm.
"Come on, Shorty; we'll be getting along," Smoke said, mushing the dogs. The crowd formed in behind and followed. "Say, ain't you-all made a mistake?" Shorty gibed. "When we met you you was goin', an' now you're comin' without bein' anywheres. Have you lost your tag?" "You go to the devil," was Saltman's courtesy. "We go and come just as we danged feel like. We don't travel with tags."
Work he will not under any circumstances, but subsists on the hospitality of the whites until he has entirely worn it out and then removes to the natives, mushing from camp to camp and "bumming" his way as he goes. He was on his way to Saint Michael, he told me with perfect gravity, "to get work."
"I'm glad to hear it." Bill glanced at his watch. "It's late, but by mushing fast we can make it in by dark. I told Virginia that I'd likely need an extra day at least she'll think I've worked fast. She'd know it if she had seen how you looked an hour ago. I was counting on finding you somewhere along the Yuga." "We moved up a few weeks ago." "There's one other thing, before we start.
I'm mushing a long trail myself this year, an' I guess my way's likely taking me in the region of Bell River, before I git back here next fall. Guess I've got that yellow streak a feller needs to make good," he went on, his gravity thawing under a shadowy smile. "And you figger Bell River's mighty unhealthy for a white man about now."
Jake with an effort pulled the kicking animal between two trees and there was quietness when the other passed. It looked round for a moment, and then plodded forward steadily while the desiccated apples ran down on the trail. "Now we'll stop and fix those bags," Jake remarked. "Why in thunder did you let the brute go, Bill?" "He was mushing along good and quiet and I wanted to light my pipe.
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