Fojage to Alaska. — Historical and Descriptive. 2\ 



STKF.CH OF SHAIKES. 



Shaikcs said the fnllnwiii}; in substance : "I am very glad to see you. I came 

 a great way to-day in my canoe ; but when I saw you on the steamer, (Kad- 

 ishan signaled him as the steamer passed him a few hours before) I did not 

 stop at my house, because I \sas anxious to see you. So I came here. 



Mr. ^■oung told us many new things ; but we had l)een often deceived by 

 white men, and «e iHd not know wheilK-rhc spoke the truth. lUit now we 

 see you, and hear what you liave to say, and we can doubt no longer. \ ou 

 have said that you will help us to be wise and strong ; and we are beginning 

 to feel that we need your help. I can help yni, and will do it. But now we 

 want you to tell us what we should do, and we shall not be ashamed to do it. 

 What I say now, I intend to do. T will not say one thing to-day, and anoth- 

 er to-morrow." (No doubt alluding, as Mr. Young says, to his previous vacil- 

 lating course. ) 



SHADF.STY. 



He used their formula: '\'I am happy to see you here, very happy. Shaikes 

 is hereditary chief; his word is law. What he tells us, we shall do. We had 

 heard something about the white man's (lod, and Mr. Young told us more 

 about Him. We did not know what to believe. Now we see you here, who 

 have come so far, and we must believe what Mr. Young has told us. " He 

 said more to the same effect. 



SPEECH OF K.\KEESH KAI'ANAKE. 



"We heard that you were coming some time ago. I saw you at ,^itka. I 

 was on the wharf when you came off the steamer there, and I w as told who 

 you were. Then I came to Fort Wrangel, a distance of one hundred and 

 seventy miles, in my canoe ; after that, up the river to this place, one hundred 

 and sixty miles further ; and everywhere told the Tlinkets that you were com- 

 ing. .\nd now I am very glad to meet you and hear what you said. It makes 

 my heart leap toward you all. Tlinkets were very ignorant, but God blessed 

 white men and put it into your hearts to send tidings about his Son to us." 



kounk's speech. 



" Kakeesh s|)oke tru--. We wjrc all very ignorant, but wj hjard of (iod, 

 and had prayed to him for teachers. We believed something about God. 

 Dr. Lindsley sent teachers (meaning"jMr. .Mallory and Mrs McFarland, as I 

 w-astold.) Now God has sent us teachers.****Indians were beginning to 

 see that God is strong, and that His friends are strong. We wish to know 

 your ways and walk in them." 



Before the conference adjourned, Shaikes expressed tiie wish that more of 

 his people could have met us., and heard what we had said. 



[O-.VIiaV OF Till-: (■(~)NFKKENCK. 



Tlie next day, luly 31, on the way to Telegraph Creek, we repeatedly heard 

 the remark that the Conference of the night before was of very great significance. 

 All parties on the boat expressed surprise, not only at the concessions made by 



