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Identifier: 1870alaskaitsres00dalluoft (find matches)
Title: Alaska and its resources
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927
Subjects: Alaska
Publisher: Boston : Lee and Shepard
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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have surmounted them.They were principally, however, not such as would impede awell-provided party of regular explorers. We laid ourselvesout, in California parlance, to get up a good dinner for ourfriends ; what with this and the interchange of news and informa-tion, it was well into the next day before we sought our pillows. Mr. McDonald returned, having determined the body to bethat of Ward, Cowleys companion. He had buried it near thepoint where it was found. After the trade, which occupied several days, we obtainedthe necessary goods to pay our Indians for the trip. To thosewho had come up with us from Nulato we gave each a gun; theNuklukahyet man received a good capote; and we gave a knife,shirt, and powder-horn to Bidarshik. Our diet while at the fort consisted chiefly of boiled driedmeat, which when cooked resembles in flavor and stringiness aboiled skein of yarn. Mr. McDonald during our stay performed several servicesamong the Indians. He was an earnest and well-disposed man.
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RED LEG GINS. THE YUKON TERRITORY. I i i a fair type of most missionaries to the Indians. His discourseswere rendered into broken Slave by Antoine Houle. In theevening the Indians, old and young, gathered in the fort-yard andsang several hymns with excellent effect. Altogether, it was ascene which would have delighted the hearts of many very goodpeople who know nothing of Indian character; and as such willdoubtless figure in some missionary report. To any one who atall understood the situation, however, the absurdity of the pro-ceeding was so palpable that it appeared almost like blasphemy. Old Sakhniti, who has at least eighteen wives, whose handsare bloody with repeated and most atrocious murders, who knowsnothing of what we understand by right and wrong, by a futurestate of reward and punishment, or by a Supreme Being, — this oldheathen was singing as sweetly as his voice would allow, and withquite as much comprehension of the hymn as one of the dogs inthe yard. Indians are fond

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