May-September 1881, Cruise of the Corwin Sketches and Notes Image 24

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1881
• Subjects: John Muir; journals; drawings; writings; travel; journaling; naturalist; Indian; Lawrence Island; St Lawrence Island
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/1764; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/2763/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg

that we would like to go home with them, to which they consented and started to guide us across the ice to where they had left their dog teams, one of them kindly giving me his balancing stick. Even the natives slipped at times and hesitated cautiously in choosing a way over the roughest hummocks. U...