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Updated: June 9, 2025
Not only did it please the natives to have the white men use the Eskimo language because it showed friendliness, but it made bargaining easier for all. It was not, however, for the purpose of trading that this party of five men were making a long, cold and tedious trip to the Selawik River. They were looking for gold.
Three days had the miners already spent in the camp of the Eskimos, and unless they were encouraged in their own way that is, unless they were given the explanation they sought, they might remain here a month longer; which stay would doubtless bring greater disgrace to the shaman's household than ever; the sooner they were told where to find the gold the better for all concerned; when they would again take to the trail, and he would be left in the undisputed possession of his Selawik wife whom he loved.
The weather was not severe and signs were propitious for "mushing". The men were clothed in reindeer skins, with sleeping bags of the same material; their dogs were fresh, and they themselves were well fed and rested. A hundred miles or more were as nothing to them as compared to the trip from Nome. At last the head waters of the Selawik were reached under Kuiktuk's guidance.
Here in the midst of a forest of small firs the boughs of which were still covered with snow as if it had just fallen, rose the chimneys of perhaps a half dozen log cabins and igloos, the latter appearing to be simply burrows from which smoke was slowly issuing; but being in reality the winter homes of the Selawik Indians or Eskimo.
The direction they wished to take was due northeast from Nome to the Selawik River; and at that place their plans would be further perfected. Their object was to find virgin gold placer gold to discover it in such quantities that all might become rich; and incidentally, after their own wants had been supplied, those of the gentlemen whose money had outfitted them would be considered perhaps.
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