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5. The superior organization of the Fort Wrangel mission, its strong force 

 and harmony, would give assurance of success to such a school. The mission- 

 aries now at P'ort Wrangtd could take charge of the training school for boys, 

 and their experience would be very valuable. 



6. The government liuildings at Sitka offer great iuducen^ents to locate a 

 training school there. The Russian Hospital, a large building, and the adjacent 

 grounds, which are extensive, have been assigned to us for this purpose. Both 

 the Sitka and the Wrangel scliools for boys must be fitted up for the purposes 

 of instruction outlined in the preceding Reports, and the necessary expenses 

 for these purposes ought to be provided by the Government without delay. 

 Our plan contemplates the co-education of the sexes to a certain extent. The 

 practicability of it is fairly illustrated in the school at Forest Grove, Oregon, 

 in which Indian children are gathered from various tribes, some of them from 

 Alaska. With its origin and progress the writer is familiar. Its progress is 

 very satisfactory, and its prospects are of the most promising nature. This 

 school and the one at Carlisle Barracks, both started since the earlier Sketches 

 in this pamphlet were written, are complete demonstrations of the positions 

 maintained herein. We earnestly, call the attention of philanthropic people, 

 to these several positions. 



REPORTS ON ALASKA.— NO. VII. 



Present Condition of the Work, May i, 1881. 



The missionaries in Alaska are much cheered by the immediate prospect of 

 accessions to their ranks. Rev. S. Hall V\-ung of Fort Wrangel, has within the 

 last two years done a very laborious and successful work of exploration and pre- 

 paration for the establishment of missions throughout the whole of south- 

 eastern Alaska. He has visited every tril^e, village and almost every fishing 

 camp in that region, taking the census, and recording the condition of each 

 point, noting its location and natural advantages, conferring with the chiefs 

 and preaching the Gospel to the people, and reporting all the facts to the 

 Board necessary to their guidance in locating missions. He carefully weighed 

 the claims of each point, in order that the most important should be occupied 

 first. ' He is able to bear unqualified testimony to the accuracy of the Reports 

 of Dr. Lindsley, who visited this Territory in 1S79, under the commission of 

 the Board of Home Missions, and to the soundness of views therein expressed. 



In the Fall of 1879 Mr. Young visited tbe tribes in the northern part of the 

 archipelago, and recommended that the Chilcats, the largest and most impor- 

 tant of these tribes, be supplied with a missionary as soon as possible. The 

 Home Board has shown its confidence in his judgment by adopting his recom- 

 mendations in each case. A missionary was commissioned for Chilcat in the 

 Summer of 1880, but was diverted te another field. In June of that year Mr. 



