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 of the phosphorescence. Mountains as high as Mount Washington stood knee deep in the sea.

As they went further northward they saw long low buildings at the mouths of the different rivers, and small villages of Indians and whites clustering about them. These were the salmon canneries.

Finally the Queen Charlotte Islands were reached, and here the ship stopped for coal and to land freight. Still further to the north they saw great glaciers, dazzling in the sunlight, periodically slipping their mountain-like contributions of ice into the sea, It was a most amazing sight to stand upon the deck of the steamer and see these great mountains of ice and sand fall with a splash that sent up a mountain-high wave each few minutes into the troubled sea.

Such rivers, such forests, such trees, such color, such dazzling beauty Dick had never seen before, and this alone paid him for the trip, so he thought, and his adventures had not yet begun.