Arthur Krause
The Geographical Society of Bremen (formerly the German organization for polar exploration) set out to expand geographical knowledge of the world. Geographers Arthur and Aurel Krause arrived in San Francisco in May 1881 to explore the coast of the Bering Sea. Aurel spent his time on the coast and his brother Arthur spent the larger part of the summer making natural history collections and geographical explorations. He accompanied the coastal Tlingit on their grease trails over the coastal mountains into the valley of the Yukon.1)
On the first trip, Arthur travelled with two young men in May when the snow was not completely melted. They travelled from Dyea as far as Lindeman Lake where they met a party of American gold miners who were busy building two boats to travel downstream. He returned on the first of June and started in again on June 17 via the Chilkat River. From Klukwan he travelled with two Indigenous guides and packers. One of the guides was Jelchkuchu, the son of Chief Tschartritsch who led the 1852 attack against Fort Selkirk. Jelchkuchu fell ill and Krause was forced to turn back at Kusawa Lake. On August 9, after a three-day canoe trip, he reached Juneau and waited there for eight days for the mail boat.2)