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 […]

Old Koskoosh listened greedily. Though his sight had long since faded, his hearing was still acute, and the slightest sound penetrated to the glimmering intelligence which yet abode behind the withered forehead, but which no longer gazed forth upon the things of the world. Ah!that was Sit-cum-to-ha, shrilly anathematizing the dogs as she cuffed and […]