Sketches of an Excursion to Southern Alaska. 



BY 



A. I,. I.lN!)SI,i:V. 



I. .\ \'ovA(;t. ix) Sn KA.- Historical and Dc.scn'iJtiAe. 



II. (iKOdRAl'HK Al,. ("I.IMAHC-. POPUI.AIION. 



III. SouiHKKN Alaska, l^lans for improving the Natives. 



I\'. .Si:(;(;f:s]'ioNs coNci'.KMXc .ScHf-oi.s and Bni.DINCS — 

 Wavs and Means. 



V. Relations of ihk Pkopli: of thk Unitki^ States 



TO THE CJlVILIZATION OF IHK N AI'IVE AlASKAN S. — A Letter 



addressed to President Hayes. 



VT. Rei'ori' lo iHK S^•^"OI) of ih]-: Coeumdia, 1880. 



VII. 1'ki.si:ni ("oxiiFi'ioN of fhk Work, Ma\', 1881.— P>y S. 

 H. Vovin<:. I'ovt Wraui^^el, Alaska. 



PRl'.FATORV. 

 Ed'orts for l/ic Ininhlitiiioii of Cirilizaiioii into J/ciska. 



U])Oii c.\tciKlin<;- the sovcrcitrnty of ilic United States over Alaska, the mili- 

 tary, judiciak and jiosi ofti.-e dcparlinents (or thai Territory centred at Port- 

 lan(k Oregon. The I-I\erutive Committee of the Presbytery of Oregon, whose 

 chairman was (and is still) pa-^tor of the tliurch in that city, was thus placed in 

 the most faNorahle situation lor gathering information touching the character 

 and condition of ihe inhaliilaiUs. Interviews were held with lC\-.Secretary 

 Seward and parlw mi their rt-tuni horn Alaska: and the officers of the doxern- 

 ment, iiiilitarv ami ri\il. have alwa.ys la'cn rea<ly tn communicate facts, the 

 knowledge of which \'.a> iiidispeiisahle in older iode\ise any ellicit-nl measures 

 <«»r the im|)roveineiit of the i)eo]>le. 



The situation wa-- iVoiii lime to time maile known to both the Foreign and 

 I lome Boards of the (-hurih, and encouraging responses came back ; but no one 

 was found lo enter the iintrieil region. The 1 K)mc luiard appointed one mi'-'- 

 .sionary win) declined without e\er xi^iting it. 



