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ALASKA DAYS WITH JOHN MUIR

[Illustration: JOHN MUIR WITH ALASKA SPRUCE CONES]


ALASKA DAYS WITH JOHN MUIR

by

S. HALL YOUNG

Illustrated







[Illustration]

New York Chicago Toronto
Fleming H. Revell Company
London and Edinburgh

Copyright, 1915, by
Fleming H. Revell Company

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CONTENTS


   I THE MOUNTAIN                   11

  II THE RESCUE                     37

 III THE VOYAGE                     59

  IV THE DISCOVERY                  95

   V THE LOST GLACIER              125

  VI THE DOG AND THE MAN           163

 VII THE MAN IN PERSPECTIVE        201




ILLUSTRATIONS


                                         FACING
                                           PAGE

 John Muir with Alaska Spruce Cones       _Title_

 Fort Wrangell                               12

 The Mountain                                24

 One of the Marvelous Array of Lakes         40

 Glacier--Stickeen Valley                    54

 Chilcat Woman Weaving a Blanket             82

 Muir Glacier                               114

 Davidson Glacier                           128

 Taku Glacier                               150

 The Front of Muir Glacier                  168

 Glacial Crevasses                          186

 John Muir in Later Life                    200


 Map                                         70
   (Voyages of Muir and Young)




 THE MOUNTAIN




THUNDER BAY


 Deep calm from God enfolds the land;
 Light on the mountain top I stand;
 How peaceful all, but ah, how grand!

 Low lies the bay beneath my feet;
 The bergs sail out, a white-winged fleet,
 To where the sky and ocean meet.

 Their glacier mother sleeps between
 Her granite walls. The mountains lean
 Above her, trailing skirts of green.

 Each ancient brow is raised to heaven:
 The snow streams always, tempest-driven,
 Like hoary locks, o'er chasms riven

 By throes of Earth. But, still as sleep,
 No storm disturbs the quiet deep
 Where mirrored forms their silence keep.

 A heaven of light beneath the sea!
 A dream of worlds from shadow free!
 A pictured, bright eternity!

 The azure domes above, below
 (A crystal casket), hold and show,
 As precious jewels, gems of snow,

 Dark emerald islets, amethyst
 Of far horizon, pearls of mist
 In pendant clouds, clear icebergs, kissed

 By wavelets,--sparkling diamonds rare
 Quick flashing through the ambient air.
 A ring of mountains, graven fair

 In lines of grace, encircles all,
 Save where the purple splendors fall
 On sky and ocean's bridal-hall.

 The yellow river, broad and fleet,
 Winds through its velvet meadows sweet--
 A chain of gold for jewels meet.

 Pours over all the sun's broad ray;
 Power, beauty, peace, in one array!
 My God, I thank Thee for this day.




I

THE MOUNTAIN


In the summer of 1879 I was stationed at Fort Wrangell in southeastern
Alaska, whence I had come the year before, a green young student fresh
from college and seminary--very green and very fresh--to do what I could
