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ALASKA. 



List of pcopU living on the AJcuiian Islanch, 1^.74, talccn from rather Innocent 

 Shiesnekor'^i record, September '2, 1("^74. 



Place. 



Creoles. 



Aleuts. 



Total. 



* Cbnrcb-worker.s, Sec. 



t Thirty-live souls iiidepondeut of this number went to Copper Island iu 1872; twenty- 

 tbree came to Ouualasbka also. 



" la 1848 tbere were some 1,400 souls on tlie Aleutian Islands 

 west of tbe Peninsula ; the small-pox then broke out, and over 

 500 died that season, leaving some 000, about which number 

 still remain. In those days these i^eople were very poor com- 

 pared with their present condition ; they had but little money, 

 very little tea, bread, and sugar, and very few clothes/' — Father 

 IShiesncl'OV, OunaJasltla, September 2, 1871.* 



The following table shows the population of Eussiau America 

 in 183-1, as given by Bishop Yeniaminov : + 



* This priest, who is a very iutelligent aud uuassumiug man, gave Lieu- 

 tenant Maynard and myself a long and exceedingly interesting account of 

 the manner in which the Alents were living under Russian rule, in order 

 that we might have a basis for comparison of the present, as we saw it, with 

 that of the past. The testimony of this gentleman I regard as of the great- 

 est value, for he knows more of the subject than any other man living who 

 can be found, as his whole life has been passed in this country, and his char- 

 acter as a prelate and a gentleman is highly respected by all who know him. 



t Veuiaminov appears to have been the only Kussian who, during the whole 

 occupation of Alaska by that jieople, has given to the world anything like a 

 history of the country or a sketch of its inhabitants, that has ability or 

 the merit of truth. He is at present living, and ranks second to the Em- 

 peror in the Kussian Empire, being the primate of the national church. He 

 must have been a man of line personal bearing, judging from the descrip- 

 tion given of him by Sir George Simpson, who met him at Sitka in 164'2 : 

 '' His appearance, to which I have already alluded, impresses a stranger with 

 something of awe, while, on further intercourse, the gentleness which char- 

 acterizes his every word and deed insensibl}' molds reverence into love j and 



