Transcriber’s Note
Page numbers have been retained, except for those containingphotographs, which have been moved to paragraph breaks. The illustrations“Caribou Crossing” and “Early September Snow, Caribou Crossing” whichappeared on the same page, are reversed in the list of illustrations,and have been corrected in order to match the order of the photographsthemselves.
Spelling is generally retained, with several exceptions which appear tobe printer’s errors. Details may be found in an End Note following thistext. Hyphenation can be variable and is retained as found. Where the soleinstance of a hyphenated word occurs on a line break, modern usage isfollowed.
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In To
The Yukon
BY
WILLIAM SEYMOUR EDWARDS
WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS
AND MAPS
SECOND EDITION
CINCINNATI
The Robert Clarke Company
1905
COPYRIGHT, 1904, BY
William Seymour Edwards
PUBLISHED NOVEMBER, 1904
REPRINTED JUNE 1905
Press of The Robert Clarke Company
CINCINNATI, U. S. A.
DEDICATION.
TO THE COMRADE WHOSE CHARMING COMPANIONSHIP
ADDED SO GREATLY TO THE DELIGHTS OF MY
TWO MONTHS’ OUTING, THIS LITTLE
VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY
DEDICATED.
THE AUTHOR.
PREFACE.
These letters were not written for publication originally. They werewritten for the home circle and the few friends who might care to readthem. They are the brief narrative of daily journeyings and experiencesduring a very delightful two months of travel into the far north andalong the Pacific slope of our continent. Some of the letters wereafterwards published in the daily press. They are now put into thislittle book and a few of the Kodak snapshots taken are given inhalf-tone prints.
We were greeted with much friendliness along the way and were therecipients of many courtesies. None showed us greater attention than theable and considerate officials of the Pacific Coast S. S. Co., theAlaska S. S. Co. and the White Pass and Yukon Railway Co., including Mr.Kekewich, managing Director of the London Board, and Mr. Newell,Vice-President of the Company.
At Atlin and Dawson we met and made many friends, and we would herereiterate to them, one and all, our warm appreciation of theirhospitalities.
William Seymour Edwards.
Charleston-Kanawha, West Virginia,
August, 1904.