It was the green heart of the canyon, where the walls swerved back from the rigid plan and relieved their harshness of line by making a little sheltered nook and filling it to the brim with sweetness and roundness and softness. Here all things rested. Even the narrow stream ceased its turbulent down-rush long enough […]

When a man journeys into a far country, he must be prepared to forget many of the things he has learned, and to acquire such customs as are inherent with existence in the new land; he must abandon the old ideals and the old gods, and oftentimes he must reverse the very codes by which […]

Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, whenthe man turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed the highearth-bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastwardthrough the fat spruce timberland. It was a steep bank, and hepaused for breath at the top, excusing the act to himself by lookingat his […]

I met him first in a hurricane. And though we had been through the hurricane on the same schooner, it was not until the schooner had gone to pieces under us that I first laid eyes on him. Without doubt I had seen him with the rest of the Kanaka crew on board, but I […]