pretty quiet.

"_Sunday, August 17th._--We are doing about five miles an
hour. Current very swift. At noon saw the Stewart valley.
Smith's store on the bank. Saw some boats stampeding for the
White River strikes. Passed the mouth of the White River.
Saw a new boat full of men turning up that river on the
stampede. It must be like old times. Well, all right--we're
going _out_.

"_Monday, August 18th._--Slow plugging up the current. Made
Selkirk, an old trading-post and mining hangout, at 2 P.M.
The scenery here is much finer than on the Mackenzie. I
don't know if tourists will ever come on any of these
rivers. It goes a little slow.

"A good many wood-yards along the banks of the river. Quite
a business selling wood to the steamboats, which burn a lot.
They showed us the line where the winter dog-stages carry
the mail to Dawson. Someone showed us the O'Brien cabin,
where four murders were committed. One white man and three
Indians were hanged for it.

"_Tuesday, August 19th._--We all got up pretty early,
although John was sleepy and Jesse a little cross. I told
them we ought to see the boat line up through the
Five-Finger Rapids. But, pshaw! there wasn't much about it.
We could run these rapids, I am sure, in our canoe, with no
danger at all. Of course, going up the current is stiff, so
at the bottom of the chute the steamboat takes on a wire
cable, and it winds around a drum with a donkey-engine, and
that pulls the boat up the rapids. They are not much like
some of the rapids we have seen.

"Well, it's twenty years since the Klondike rush, and we've
been over a good deal of the country that the old-timers
saw. Here we come to White Horse, and there we shall take
the railroad over the Skagway Pass, where so many men had
such awful times trying to get from the salt water into the
Yukon Valley.

"I don't think I'll write any more notes, because when you
get to a railroad everybody knows about it all anyhow. John
and Jesse and I feel pretty blue, after all. Our trip is the
same as done when we get to White Horse, and we are sorry.
When we once know we can get home all safe, we sort of feel
homesick for the rivers and mountains, too. You know how
that is.

"I don't know that we would want to do it all over