70 SkfU/ies of an Excursion to Soiithe7-n Alaska. 



Young fitted out, and sent to that tribe as missionary teacher, Mrs. Sarah 

 Dickinson, a native of the Tongas trihe — speaking the same language — who 

 had been educated at the Fort Wrangel mission. The Board confirmed her 

 commission, and she has been laboring very successfully ever since — the 

 Chilcats welcoming her warmly, and continuing to send their children to 

 her school. 



Last August Mr. Young again visited these Northern tribes, spending some 

 time among the Chilcats. He carefully studied the condition of each of the 

 four villages of that tribe, and selected a point on a beautiful harbor, accessible 

 to all, upon good farming land, and where the Northwest Trading Company 

 has its post, as the site for a mission and a new Indian town. He selected a 

 site for a church, and made arrangements with the Company, who had the 

 lumber on the ground, to build a comfortable house for church and school. 

 This the Company agreed to put up inmiediately. This building is now up 

 and ready for occupancy. The head men of all these villages pledged them- 

 selves to obey the coming missionary, to build a new town of "white man's 

 houses," and to Support the school. Thus the mission haS long been located, 

 and all is in readiness for the missionary. Rev. Eugene S. Willard, who goes 

 up by the June steamer to take charge of that mission, will find a people 

 eagerly expecting him, and an open door for the entrance of Christian 

 civilization. 



In the Spring of 1880, Mr. Young, accompanied by the Rev. G. W. Lyons, 

 the newly appointed missionary to Sitka, made the tour of the Prince of Wales 

 group of Islands. He visited all the tribes in that region, taking the census 

 and collecting information as before. He located a mission in Cordova Bay, 

 selecting a site for another new mission town at a point accessible by four 

 Hydah villages, where there was a good water-power, plenty of valuable 

 timber, a good anchorage, and ground capable of cultivation. He obtained 

 pledges from the head men of all these villages that they would desert their 

 present Indian towns, and build a new town on the site selected. He recom- 

 mended to the Board that this mission be started upon what is known as the 

 Metlakatlah plan : first a sawmill, which will soon pay for itself — the Indians 

 readily buying the lumber — the church and school house built by native work- 

 men properly directed, then a town of neat and commodious houses, built and 

 filled by a population which subscribes to the laws, and conforms to the plans 

 of the settlement. The Board adopted Mr. Young's recommendations, and 

 now that field is outlined, and ready for a suitable manager to take charge of 

 what can be made in a few years an entirely self-supporting plantation. The 

 Northwest Trading Company has agreed to erect a post at the site chosen, and 

 toput a man in charge who is fully in sympathy with our plans. Thus the four 

 central points of Fort Wrangel, Sitka, Chilcat, and Hydah will all be sup- 

 plied, and will be working as the nuclei for the gathering together and 

 evangelization of the whole archipelago. 



In accordance with the plans outlined in the preceding pages, Mr. Young 



, recommends the Hoonyahs, the large and promising tribe situated on Cross 



Sound, as the next tiibe to be evangelized, either by native teachers educated 



