Swett, Helen, Page 2

• Main Author: Swett, Helen
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 2017
• Subjects: John Muir; biography; reminiscence; colleagues; contemporaries; archives; special collections; University of the Pacific; California; Holt-Atherton Special Collections; history; naturalist; Atherton; Pacific; Swett; eskimo*; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmr-all/102; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmr-all/article/1103/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg

interrupting the continuity of a fanciful tale spun on the spur of the moment to entertain his child guest. A chest stood in the corner - a plain wooden affair without ornament but with a stout hasp. How eloquently it spole to my childish mind of the mystery and delights of travel in far corners of...