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pages 16-17

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Identifier ORU_WTXT_025i http://oregondigital.org/u?/wwdl,239
Title pages 16-17
Relation The Columbia Unveiled
Date 2004-06-30
Rights This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the University of Oregon Libraries as a source is requested.
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Description Image Caption: WITH PACK AND RIFLE ON AN ALASKA TRAIL --page break-- overtook me, with no other shelter but the foliage of a spruce or hemlock tree. In 1915, I was again on the Unuk River—this time with two partners. We constructed a rowboat at Ketchikan, Alaska, and in her rowed seventy miles across salt water to the mouth of the Unuk. The Unuk River has a current of about seven miles an hour and we ascended it by lining up stream. Twenty-four miles above the river's mouth is an...

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