ALASKA INDUSTRIES. 4Q5 



hnllif^ ^JT^ ^""^T' '"'''^ ^^^^' slougliingtiway into the saud beueath 

 has uot and does not cause any sickness among the people who live S 



Slcnl ar To tbi?/^'""'" ?" ^^^^' ^^""' tempJratni^e and Itiong w n s 

 peculiar to tbe place seem to prevent any unliealthv effect from fbP fpr 

 mentation of de<.ay. The Ul^mus and other grasse Lee mofe ta^^^^^^^^ 

 and grow with magical vigor over that nnsi|htly spot, to which the seal 

 mg gang again returns, repeating their batlaufwWchwrSLve marked 

 before upon this place, three years ago. In that wav this^Hn of 

 ground, seen on my map between the village, the EasUamW Ji^Aful 

 Lagoon, contains the bones and the oil drfp^nngs and otl ei f;^^^^^^ 



Th'ou o'lTtt'^''"^ f Lukannon, to the village over the kill S^^^^^^^ 



oi^^e of^he -f-> or.!/ ^"^"^^ ^^^'' ^^ ''^"^^ «" *'^^ fluids, yet each aSd every 

 one 01 the oo 000 decaying carcasses was there, and bare : having- burned 

 as It were their way out to the open air, po lutino- the same to n ^Trl 

 tor'Z; ' "^r ^^^^"^rV^ by the iesiden'ti who noticed wLdalcon 

 tortions, and assured that this state of smell was nothiu J^ to win? T 

 should soon experience when the frost and snow had fair ym?lted Thev 

 were correct; the odor along by theendof May wasSficS^^ 



ablv dPclI?p''/w ^T' ^' { '^''^^ ^'''^ ^''^ ^''^^ ^^^^ nervously and invari- 

 ably declare that such an atmosphere must breed a plague or a fpvlr of 



W^S;d h'ittrT' "i'^""^^ T''''' "- as;;?inro"tho'^rwho 



of mm h'5^ ^'^'' ^''^^'^'"' ^^^^ '^f^^^- '^' fe^^ weeks' contacrof a con fe 

 used to hlt''^''"^^'^ 1^ ?^ ^^°^^^^*' ^^^ "^o^'^t sensitive no^e Lcomes 



ance to that merciful retm^t irusn;,lirrMVhr i ' ^ •^'' ""l ^^'''^^ ^^''^«*- 



