een Alaska and the Dominion of
Canada is now done.

[Illustration: HUSKY DOG--RAMPART HOUSE]

"All of us boys got gay and went over on the other side of
the Boundary and took off our hats and gave three cheers for
America. We were glad we were on American soil once more. We
feel now as if we were getting out of the fur-trading
country. Am not sorry. I don't like the country or the
people in it very much. Everything seems so shiftless.
Still, they manage to get on. I suppose if I lived up here a
hundred years things might look different.

"_Monday, August 4th._--Breakfast 10.30. We've got some
supplies here. Nothing much to boast of. Fixed up our boat
again for the long run for home. We feel pretty safe now.
Left Andrew at Old Crow, but saw some people at Rampart who
knew about him and other travelers who are back of us on the
Porcupine. We hope they will all get out. Winter will come
any time now. Left at 4.30 in the afternoon. Ran two hours
and had tea. River rising very fast, and current swift, so
that we thought we made five or six miles an hour at least.
Ran two and a half hours, some of us paddling, and thought
we made thirty miles. We are trying to use this rise in the
river all we can. Camped on a stony beach. Sand is very wet
and cold for a bed, but we cut some willows and did fairly
well. Not very cold.

"_Tuesday, August 5th._--Struck an Indian camp and traded
tea for some fresh moose meat, which we were mighty glad to
get. I am like John--I never want to see a rabbit again.

"To-day passed a boat tracking up-stream for Rampart. A man
and dog were pulling. They had a sail set to help, and the
steersman was poling and paddling the best he could to help.
Even so, it was a slow way to get up-stream. We felt sorry
for them when we left them. Later in the day met still
another boat, two Indians tracking freight up to Rampart
House. They say sometimes freight is carried up this river
with a powerboat. These Indians say we've come about a
hundred miles from Rampart, and that in about twenty miles
we will be half-way to the mouth of the river. Wish it were
not so far.

"_Wednesday, August 6th._--This is hard work. We rested and
paddled and slept and paddled. Too much wind, and we had to
quit toward evening. When