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Order being restored, the travellers got new harness for the dogs, new boots for themselves, and set out for the white trading post, thirty miles above. Here, having at last come into the region of settlements, they agreed never again to overtax the dogs. They "travelled light" out of Nulato towards the Koyukuk. The dogs simply flew over those last miles.
"Say, Bill, if that there lower jam holds, we're goners;" the man with the canister called to his partner. "Ay, that it will," came the answer. "Below Nulato I saw Bixbie Island swept clean as my old mother's kitchen floor." The men came hastily together about Frona. "This won't do. We've got to carry them over to your shack, Corliss."
His grave, with a headboard bearing a Latin inscription, is neatly kept up by the Jesuit priests at Nulato. In the last few years the river has been invading the bank upon which the old village stood, and as the earth caves in relics of the slaughter and burning come to light.
Whether the U.S. Agent at Nulato was justified or not in saying all the region hereabouts was populous in the summer with Indian camps, the native winter settlements, the half-buried ighloo, or the rude log-hut, where, for a little tea, tobacco, or sugar, you could get as much fish as you could carry, these welcome, if malodorous, places seemed, since they lost the trail, to have vanished off the face of the earth.
Subienkow urged to go farther. But he quickly reconciled himself to Nulato. The long winter was coming on. It would be better to wait. Early the following summer, when the ice was gone, he would disappear up the Kwikpak and work his way to the Hudson Bay Company's posts. Malakoff had never heard the whisper that the Kwikpak was the Yukon, and Subienkow did not tell him.
Big Innuit feast." "When?" "Pretty quick. Every year big feast down to Ikogimeut when Yukon ice get hard, so man go safe with dog-team." "Do many people go?" "All Innuit go, plenty Ingalik go." "How far do they come?" "All over; come from Koserefsky, come from Anvik sometime Nulato." "Why, Nulato's an awful distance from Ikogimeut."
It is true that there are unquestioned murders that have been committed murders of white men at that; but in the sixty years from the Nulato massacre of 1851, over the whole vast interior, these crimes can be counted on the fingers of one hand. They are not a revengeful people.
And the great bear crushed him, so, till his bones cracked like dry sticks. Thus I found him, very sick and groaning upon the ground. And there was no meat, nor could I kill aught that the sick man might eat. "So I said, 'I will go to Nulato and bring thee food, also strong men to carry thee to camp. And Kamo-tah said, 'Go thou to Nulato and get food, but say no word of what has befallen me.
So that thing before him was Big Ivan Big Ivan the giant, the man without nerves, the man of iron, the Cossack turned freebooter of the seas, who was as phlegmatic as an ox, with a nervous system so low that what was pain to ordinary men was scarcely a tickle to him. Well, well, trust these Nulato Indians to find Big Ivan's nerves and trace them to the roots of his quivering soul.
The oldest white men's graves in Alaska, again with the exception of Nulato, are those in the little Hudson Bay cemetery near Fort Yukon. Fort Yukon is also the site of the oldest missionary station on the river, unless there were earlier visits of Russian priests to the lower river, of which there seems no record, for in 1862 there was a clergyman of the Church of England at this place.
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