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Title: Wonderland, or, Alaska and the inland passage
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Schwatka, Frederick, 1849-1892 Hyde, John, 1848-1929. From the Great Lakes to Puget Sound
Subjects: Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher: St. Paul : Northern Pacific Railroad
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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hostage had only one eye, they declared him cultus (bad), and sent word that they must have a whole and sound man, or his equivalent in blankets, to make up for their lost medicine man. They threatened the massacre of the settlement, and word was sent to Sitka for help. Captain Merriman, United States navy, went over with the revenue cutter * Corwin and the steamer Favorite, and made a counter demand for blankets as a guarantee for their future peace and quiet. Failing to respond,he carried out his threat of shelling their village, the Indians havingimproved their hours of delay by removing their canoes, valuables and pro-visions. Most of the houses were destroyed, and the humbled Indians came to terms, and have been the most penitent and reliable friends of the whites * The Russian name is Destruction or Pernicious Straits (the reason for which appears furtheron), and, in its improper translation to Peril Straits, many people supposed the name was give non account of its dangerous navigation.
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(64) THROUGH WONDERLAND. 65 -ever since. They have built their houses now around the Killisnoo settlement; and, although Captain Merriman left the Territory some time ago, they all speak of him as the best of tyees, and the settlers say that the naval battle of Killisnoo has made life and property more secure throughout the Territory. At present the inland passage in the Territory and British Columbia is as safe from Indians as Broadway, in New York City, or State street, Chicago. In no place in the world of which I know, or have ever heard, are the facilities for studying Indian life so good for those who only spend a tourists jaunt among them. Many people along the far Western railroads will remember seeing here and there a dirty group of assorted Indians, begging for alms, and taking full advantage of all the silver-plated sympathy showered upon them in that metal; for they were parts of the curious scenes to behold. Generally they were a slim delegation from some far-away agency, a

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