Chapter XIX

Aboriginal Dwellings.-Mastodons in Alaska.-Few Old People alive.-Abundance of Rain.-The Wonderful Treadwell Gold Mine.-Largest Quartz Crushing Mill in the World.-Inexhaustible Riches.-Other Gold Mines.-The Great Davidson Glacier.-Pyramid Harbor.-Native Frauds.-The Chilcats.-Mammoth Bear.-Salmon Canneries 258

xCHAPTER XX. Glacier Bay.-More Ice Bays.-Majestic Front of the Muir Glacier.-The Bombardment of the Glacier.-One of the Grandest Sights in the World.-A Moving River of Ice.-The Natives.-Abundance of Fish.-Native Cooking.-Wild Berries.-Hoonish Tribe.-Copper Mines.-An Iron Mountain.-Coal Mines 275