The Young Alaskans on the Trail

emained considerable light. One could have seen many miles over the surrounding country had not, close at hand, where the little white tent stood, the forest of spruce been very dense and gree

tlement. The forest stood dark, and to-night, so motionless was the air, its silence was more complete than is usually the case among the pines or spruces, where always the upper branches murmur and whisper among themselves. Such scenes cause a

year before, were cast away for some time on the slopes of Kadiak Island, in the far upper portion of Alaska; from which place they were at last rescued in part by their own wits and in part by the watch

to take such chances again. Perhaps Uncle Dick never really told the parents of the boys the full truth about the dangers his young charges had encountered on Kadiak

o one. So it was not long after the return from Kadiak before he forgot all about the risks the boys had run there. The very next year he was the first one to plead with their parents, and to tell them that in his belief the best way in

en locating the new railroad bound westward from Edmonton, in far-off Northwest Canada. While he himself could not leave his employment to go with the boys

road making west as fast as it can, and it will be taking all sort of people into that country before long. Here's a chance for the boys to have a fine hunt and some camping and canoeing. It will make them sto

cause it's a hard trip for men in some ways. But in the care of Alex Mackenzie

sked Jesse Wilcox's mother

th, and there always have been Mackenzies in the fur trade. But speaking of the name, here's what I want to explain to you, sis

was a long

ver to cross this continent, and this was the way he went, both in going west and coming east-just where I want these boys to go. They'll see eve

iscovered and explored and developed, so far as that is concerned. That is history on the hoof, if you like, sister. In my belie

t your promises!"

Dick of her. "And where can you find three sounder

Athabasca River and the Arctic Ocean-why, it seems as though the boys wer

them in the boat to Vancouver and east with them by rail to where they take the stage up the Ashcroft trail-a wagon-road as plain as this street here. They can jog along that way as far as Quesnelles as easy as they could on a s

protested his sister, "but I kn

," said Uncle Dick, turning away. "In my belief, the

traders that used to travel in that country. It was hard

the best-known men in the North. General Wolseley took him for chief of his band of voyageurs, who got the boats up the Nile in Kitchener's Khartoum campaign. He's steadier than a clock, and the boys are safer with him than anywhere else withou

y bad rapids in the mo

fe. Besides, you forget that though all this country is more or less new, there are Hudson Bay posts scattered all through it. When they get east of the Rockies, below Hudson's Hope and Fort St. John, they come on Dunvegan, whic

ed-"since their fathers want them to live in this northern country for a time, I want my boy to grow up fit for

beset their parents that eventually they would get cons

e crest of the Rockies in British Colu