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tight board fence. Various changes had also been made in the interior 

 arrangement of the house so that everything was made comfortable. 

 At 3.15 on the 16th, waving our adieus to Mr. and Mrs. Gambell, who 

 were the only white people on the island left alone with 300 barbarous 

 Eskimos until the good cutter should return next year to see how they 

 were getting on, our ship got under way for the Seal Islands which 

 were reached on the 19th. No one coming from the shore, on the 20th 

 the captain steamed away for St. George Island, stopping a short time 

 to get the mail; the voyage was continued to Unalaska, which we 

 reached on the morning of the 21st; here we found a very large mail 

 had accumulated daring the summer ; also the United States mail steamer 

 was in the harbor, soon to leave for Sitka. Packing my effects and 

 bidding adieu to Captain and Mrs. Healy and the officers and sailors 

 of the Bear, I went aboard the Dora, which expected to sail at 6 

 o'clock on the morning of the 22d. The day opened, however, with a 

 southeastern gale so severe that it was not considered wise to leave 

 the wharf. This gave me an opportunity, that I very much desired, of 

 spending the day with the teacher, Mr. Tuck, and the new United States 

 commisssoner, Mr. Woodward, United States deputy marshal, Mr. 

 Anthony, and conferring with them with relation to school matters in 

 that place. 



Before daylight on the morning of the 23d the whistle of the mail 

 steamer notified us to all get aboard. At 7 o'clock the steamer pushed 

 off from the wharf and started for Sitka. Night finding us in a very 

 dangerous part of the coast, the ship hove to until morning. The ship 

 rolled badly and the deadlight window to my stateroom leaked to such 

 an extent that the bed was saturated with salt water. On the after- 

 noon of the 24th a landing was made at Belkofsky, where the ship 

 remained at anchor all night. Father Alexis (Greek priest) with wife 

 and child went ashore. He has been placed in charge of Belkofsky 

 and Unga, the former priest (Metropolsky) having been returned to San 

 Francisco. The monk that was in charge of the Unalaska parish has 

 been ordered back to Russia and a young priest just out from Russia, 

 and a young Russian deacon, have been placed at Unalaska. On the 

 morning of the 25th we had a beautiful view of Pavaloff volcano; a 

 little smoke was seen issuing from the crater; the mountain was 

 covered from crater to base with a fresh coat of snow. In the after- 

 noon the steamer called a short time at Sand Point, and then getting 

 under way readied Unga about half past 3 o'clock in the afternoon. 

 That afternoon and the next day were spent in looking after matters 

 connected with the school at this point. The Aleut girl, Mary 

 Dushkin, 13 years of age, was placed in my charge to go to the Baptist 

 school at Wood Island. 



At 5 p. in. on the 26th the ship got under way for Karluk, making 

 the distance in the short space of twenty-six hours. Leaving there at 

 midnight, Wood Island was reached about noon on the following day. 

 At Wood Island the time was spent at Mr. Roscoe's school. The next 



