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morning - I visited and inspected the school at Kadiak and arranged for 

 the school gradings. Leaving Kadiak at 10 a. m. we reached Nuchek 

 at 5 o'clock the following afternoon. At this point we were joined by 

 the Rev. Mr. Donskoi, the Greek priest from Sitka, who came aboard 

 the vessel. Leaving Nuchek at 3 a. m., Kyak was reached the middle 

 of the afternoon where we went ashore and visited the two trading- 

 posts that are located at that point. The barometer being very low 

 and still falling, the captain concluded to remain in the harbor; a north- 

 east gale continuing, we remained there the following day. In the 

 morning a report was brought to the ship that the natives had brought 

 in the night before two corpses of people killed from the mainland. 

 After breakfast a number of the officers and passengers from the 

 steamer went ashore and a court of inquiry was instituted. It .seems 

 that in a drunken row a native man had shot his wife, and afterwards 

 shot himself. Their friends had brought the two bodies to Kyak for 

 burial. 



Much evil is being done among the native population through the 

 smuggling of liquor, with the attending drunkenness and demoraliza- 

 tion. The traders at the several posts speak of it very freely, but their 

 information always concerns some other post than their own. At A 

 they would tell you of the drunkenness at B, and when you reached B 

 they would tell you of the drunkenness and disregard of the law going 

 on at A. Crime was freely confessed, only it always existed at some 

 other point than the one at which you were at the time visiting. The 

 traders also report that large quantities of opium are smuggled in 

 through the salmon canneries. If one is to believe what the traders 

 say of one another, the condition of things is very disreputable along 

 the whole coast. 



About noon of October 3, the gale having somewhat abated, the 

 steamer got under way for Yakutat, which we reached the next day at 

 noon, doing ashore I made a short visit to the Swedish mission and 

 school. Since their disastrous tire of two years ago, they have built, 

 but not completed, a very neat church. They have built two large' 

 hayracks, upon which they were hanging hay to cure, after the old- 

 country fashion. After a short stay we were again under way, and at 

 7 o'clock on the morning of the 0th of October reached the wharf at 

 Sitka, just twenty-four hours too late to connect with the steamer for 

 the States, which runs only once every two weeks. The two weeks, 

 however, passed very quickly and pleasantly with the teachers and 

 schools at that place. 



Bidding the friends at Sitka good-bye on the morning of the 

 ISth, I took the mail steamer City of TopeJca for the States, having in 

 charge John Reinkin, of Uualaska, and Samuel Kendall Paul, of 

 Sitka, native boys, to go to the Indian training school at Carlisle, 

 Pa. That afternoon a three-hours' stop was made at Killisnoo. which 

 enabled me to arrange with Mr. Spuhn with regard to suitable school 

 grounds at that place. At 5 o'clock on the morning of October 19 we 



