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Project Gutenberg's The Magnetic North, by Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond) This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Magnetic North Author: Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond) Release Date: November 10, 2003 [EBook #10038] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MAGNETIC NORTH *** Produced by Suzanne Shell, Anita Paque, Shawn Wheeler, David Schaal, Anuradha Valsa Raj and PG Distributed Proofreaders THE MAGNETIC NORTH By ELIZABETH ROBINS (C. E. Raimond) Author of "The Open Question," "Below the Salt," etc. _With a Map_ 1904 CONTENTS CHAPTER I. WINTER CAMP IN THE YUKON II. HOUSE-WARMING III. TWO NEW SPISSIMENS IV. THE BLOW-OUT V. THE SHAMAN VI. A PENITENTIAL JOURNEY VII. KAVIAK'S CRIME VIII. CHRISTMAS IX. A CHRISTIAN AGNOSTIC X. PRINCESS MUCKLUCK XI. HOLY CROSS XII. THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE XIII. THE PIT XIV. KURILLA XV. THE ESQUIMAUX HORSE XVI. MINOOK XVII. THE GREAT STAMPEDE XVIII. A MINERS' MEETING XIX. THE ICE GOES OUT XX. THE KLONDYKE XXI. PARDNERS XXII. THE GOING HOME THE MAGNETIC NORTH CHAPTER I WINTER CAMP ON THE YUKON "To labour and to be content with that a man hath is a sweet life; but he that findeth a treasure is above them both."--_Ecclesiasticus_. Of course they were bound for the Klondyke. Every creature in the North-west was bound for the Klondyke. Men from the South too, and men from the East, had left their ploughs and their pens, their factories, pulpits, and easy-chairs, each man like a magnetic needle suddenly set free and turning sharply to the North; all set pointing the self-same way since that July day in '97, when the _Excelsior_ sailed into San Francisco harbour, bringing from the uttermost regions at the top of the map close upon a million dollars in nuggets and in gold-dust. Some distance this side of the Arctic Circle, on the right bank of the Yukon, a little detachment of that great army pressing northward, had been wrecked early in the month of September. They had realised, on leaving the ocean-going ship that landed them at St. Michael's Island (near the mouth of the great river), th
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