Alaska and the Panama canal . ry, a number of Indian tombscrowning a hill, all constructed on top of the ground. Whatthe camera does not convey to the reader is the fact that eachsmall house for the dead, marked by a cross, was painted adistinctly different color. The sun, burning low on the horizonline, reflected from these uncanny dwellings of the dead allthe hues of the rainbow. This glow of vivid colors about thecrude tombs where the forms of men lay lifeless produced astrange effect upon the mind. It was much like bedecking acorpse with many-hued ribbons, and you can fancy howstrange a si

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Alaska and the Panama canal . ry, a number of Indian tombscrowning a hill, all constructed on top of the ground. Whatthe camera does not convey to the reader is the fact that eachsmall house for the dead, marked by a cross, was painted adistinctly different color. The sun, burning low on the horizonline, reflected from these uncanny dwellings of the dead allthe hues of the rainbow. This glow of vivid colors about thecrude tombs where the forms of men lay lifeless produced astrange effect upon the mind. It was much like bedecking acorpse with many-hued ribbons, and you can fancy howstrange a sight that would be. If it were the intention of theseIndians to make their last resting place so conspicuous thatGabriel could not miss them on the morning of the resurrec-tion, they have certainly succeeded. When the Great Angelfinally arrives and proceeds to page the sleepers of Alaskahe can hardly miss them. The ice glaciers of Alaska are among the most impressiveand curious natural formations that I have seen anywhere. 109. ALASKA III One of the largest of these is the great Childs Glacier on theCopper River. Many of the glaciers abut upon the ocean, andit is rarely that one finds in the interior upon a river fortymiles from the sea a live glacier, traveling at the rate of fourfeet every hour, as does the Childs Glacier, It is impossiblefor any photograph to show more than a small portion of thistremendous formation. It is over 300 feet high, and has aface wall abutting on the river several miles in width, andextends sixty miles back into the valley and high up a moun-tain side. Quite a block of ice, you see. Every few min-utes thousands of tons of ice break loose from the wall orface of the glacier and rush down into the water with a noiselike thunder or the booming of cannon. The plunge of thesegigantic masses into the river raises the water until it washesacross the 1, 500 feet of distance between the wall of ice andthe opposite rocky shore and sends waves hundreds of feet