Wilderness, A Journal of Quiet Adventure in Alaska. Rockwell Kent

the town. We found Fox Island on Sunday, August twenty-fifth, 1918, and left there finally on the seventeenth of the following March.

      R. K.

      Arlington, Vermont,

      December, 1919.

ILLUSTRATIONS

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	Facing Page
“Zarathustra Himself Led the Ugliest Man by the Hand, in Order to Show Him His Night-World and the Great Round Moon and the Silvery Waterfalls Nigh Unto His Cave”	2
Unknown Waters	6
Home Building	12
Fire Wood	16
The Sleeper	20
The Windlass	24
The Snow Queen	28
Fox Island, Resurrection Bay, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska	32
Rain Torrents	36
Day	42
Night	46
Wilderness	50
One of Rockwell’s Drawings	54
Sunrise	56
Adventure	60
On the Height	68
The Day’s Work	72
Meal Time	76
Day’s End	80
The Cabin Window	90
“Go to Bed”	94
Driftwood	98
The Whittler	104
“Get Up!”	110
Man	114
Woman	118
Foreboding	124
Lone Man	128
Cain	136
Superman	140
The North Wind	146
Another of Rockwell’s Drawings	152
Weltschmerz	154
Victory	158
Zarathustra and His Playmates	164
Frozen Fall	168
The Hermit	172
Ecstasy	176
Pelagic Reverie	184
Prison Bars	188
Running Water	192
Immanence	196
The Vision	202
The Imperishable	206
The Star-Lighter	210

CHAPTER I

       DISCOVERY

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       We must have been rowing for an hour across that seeming mile-wide stretch of water.

      The air is so clear in the North that one new to it is lost in the crowding of great heights and spaces. Distant peaks had risen over the lower mountains of the shore astern. Steep spruce-clad slopes confronted us. All around was the wilderness, a no-man’s-land of mountains or of cragged islands, and southward the wide, the limitless, Pacific Ocean.

      A calm, blue summer’s day,—and on we rowed upon our search. Somewhere there must