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Title: A Daughter of the Snows
Author: Jack London
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Language: English
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A DAUGHTER OF THE SNOWS
by
JACK LONDON
Author of _The Son of The Wolf_, _The Call of the Wild_,
_The People of the Abyss_, etc.
With Illustrations by Frederick C. Yohn
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers--New York
1902
CHAPTER I
"All ready, Miss Welse, though I'm sorry we can't spare one of the
steamer's boats."
Frona Welse arose with alacrity and came to the first officer's side.
"We're so busy," he explained, "and gold-rushers are such perishable
freight, at least--"
"I understand," she interrupted, "and I, too, am behaving as though I
were perishable. And I am sorry for the trouble I am giving you,
but--but--" She turned quickly and pointed to the shore. "Do you
see that big log-house? Between the clump of pines and the river? I
was born there."
"Guess I'd be in a hurry myself," he muttered, sympathetically, as he
piloted her along the crowded deck.
Everybody was in everybody else's way; nor was there one who failed to
proclaim it at the top of his lungs. A thousand gold-seekers were
clamoring for the immediate landing of their outfits. Each hatchway
gaped wide open, and from the lower depths the shrieking donkey-engines
were hurrying the misassorted outfits skyward. On either side of the
steamer, rows of scows received the flying cargo, and on each of these
scows a sweating mob of men charged the descending slings and heaved
bales
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