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Alone for months at a time, these men were dependent upon their wits and their own energy for life and safety. They went up the Mackenzie river, to its mouth, cut across the Continental Divide over 65 miles of rapids on the Rat river and descended the Yukon to the Pacific...
...just south of the Eskimos, predicted that we would never be seen again. When we reached the long rapids of the Rat river, we were inclined to believe them. After losing guns and cameras in upsets in the freezing water and living on short rations, we finally reached Fort Yukon in Alaska. There was perpetual daylight during most of the trip and the mosquitoes were terrible, but the excitement and interest more than made up for our discomfort...
North America. In Alaska, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka of the Smithsonian Institution scoured the shoreland and islands north to Point Barrow, then worked southward, following the Yukon to its mouth, in search of relics left by problematical Asiatic migrations to America. The anthropological world waited to hear if he could establish kinship between North American red Indians and identical human types visible today in northeastern Asia...
...last the familiar signal flashed in. They were at Circle City, 130 miles northeast of Fairbanks on the Yukon. That they were safe was good news, but there was better news still...
Going south again they had not navigated (used instruments) but had piloted their plane by "familiar" landmarks remembered from the trip up. A buffeting headwind threw their calculations off a lot, and when they reached the Yukon they were far to the east of their course. Eielson had recognized Circle City; they had descended to refuel and pass the night...