The Young Alaskans on the Missouri

of the two little propellers that kept the gunwales trembling. "

hat foresail, Frank, you and Jesse. We'll do our six miles an hour, sure as shooting! Haul

day?" demanded Jesse, "a

a roar of laughter o

big scow upstream. She was loaded heavy, and they often had to drag her on the line. When the

and distances on the bends. For instance, here is the first record of that sort, May 15

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from average speed, which is what they also did. I suppose it seemed a long way. Patrick Gass says it was th

fresh breeze back of them still held fair for most of the bends. They made St. Charles by

ear as I can learn, they camped and cooked on

ll of bread and marmalade. "Deer a

deer, four bear, and two wol

holds we'll have to make a good many towns for supplies. More's the pity, there's a good to

s a fellow can't help getting hungry.

d I think Patrick Gass must have liked them, way he talks. He says, 'W

was able to answer, for he found the page in the Journal, which w

old frontier ration, you know. That was about twenty-eight bushels in all, with some eighteen bushels of 'common' and twenty-two bushels of hominy. Then they had thirty half barrels of flour, an

s & pees,' as Clark spells them, and only two bags of s

rease list?" Jesse was rather wise about making up

d pounds of 'grees,' as he calls it. Not so much; and they ran out of salt in a year, and out of

other weapons and ammunition. They had sun glasses and an air gun and

this big bend and take the wind on the larboard quarter, Jesse. I'll promise you, if our gas hol