October-December 1879, First Alaska Trip with S. Hall Young Image 40

• Main Author: Muir, John
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1879
• Subjects: John Muir; journals; drawings; writings; travel; journaling; naturalist; Arctic; Indian; Main Bay; Ermine; glacier; glaciers; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmj-all/1641; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmj-all/article/2640/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg

back on a large stream, the outlet of a glacier, and an Indian who came out in a canoe with his wife to interview us told us that hose white men were building a large log house up there. It appears they had struck it and were afraid that we would find it out and tell others of the discovery. Hence a...