Temperature: low, travel, 14 animal life, 16 in river bottoms, 19, 50, 61 effect on lamps, 34 on parts of the body, 36 on log huts, 37 condensation, 53 smoke, 54 clear weather, 55 wind, 57 emotional power, 59 death from freezing, 61, 66, 68 cleanliness, 86 altitude, effect of, 204 greatest cold, effect of, 206 fluctuations, 212 confinement, 215 effect on cameras and films, 372, 374 on emulsions, 376, 377 and auroras, 381 high, 301 effect on dirt roof, 346 on Yukon River, 347 Thermos bottle, 261 Toboggan, 13, 37, 38, 46, 89 Topkok, 117 Town crier, 278 Tozitna, 209, 213 Trader: anti-monopolist, 241 profits, 334 missions, 258 articles sold to Indians, 361 Trading monopoly, 144 Trail: river, 2, 13, 37 dry and wet, 7 mountain, 10, 38 width, 15 lost, 18, 19, 67, 104, 320 blazed, 26 wind-swept, 40 in snow, 72, 138 breaking, 74, 75 exchange, 75 with hard crust, 109 telephone, 118 effect of horses on, 149, 150 cutting, 176 making, 198 always serpentine, 198 staked, 198, 210 widening, 202 stage, 254 double tripping, 298 in soft snow, 301 swampy, 332 Yukon, 336 in gale, 340 "sidling," 341 at night, 344 in thaw, 346, 347 found by aurora, 384 Tsórmina, 308 Tuberculosis, 359, 360 Twelve-Mile Summit, 9 Unalaklík, 132 Walter, 314, 321, 336, 341 Whiskey, 153, 222, 363 White, John, 121 Wind: protection against, 35 different local velocities, 37 physical labour, 46 in extreme cold, 57 as a malignant spirit, 112 high velocities, 219 in The Ramparts, 338 Wiseman, 47 Wolf, 395 Yukon, 12, 139, 153, 219, 336, 351 Flats, 12, 13, 343 Fort, 21, 22, 24, 350 [Illustration: MAP OF THE INTERIOR OF ALASKA, SHOWING JOURNEYS DESCRIBED IN THIS BOOK] * * * * * Transcriber's Notes: Obvious punctuation errors repaired. Page 77, "Bergundy" changed to "Burgundy" (of Burgundy, with) Page 97, "rouch" changed to "rough" (over the rough ice) Page 306, sidenote "MINCHUMINA" changed to MINCHÚMINA" (THE MINCHÚMINA FOLK) Page 334, "Iditerod" changed to "Iditarod" (Iditarod, now a whole) Page 361, "satteens" changed to "sateens" (velvets and sateens) Page 418, "Minchumina" changed to "Minchúmina" (Minchúmina, 307, 308) Page 420, "Unalaklik" changed to "Unalaklík" (Unalaklík, 132) For this text version, the w with the grave accent is denoted by ['w]. End of Project Gutenberg's Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled, by Hudson Stuck