84 INTKUUUCTION OK DOMESTIC HKINDKKR INTO ALASKA. 



I would respectfully recommend that each l)oy graduating he given 

 a rifle and a shotgun with 200 rounds ol ammunition for each, 

 cooking utensils, bedding, a few articles of household furniture, rope 

 and sled (wood and steel runners) , a good supply for one year of cereals 

 and vegetables especially, some good clothing, and a cabin, to be 

 located after consultation and agreement with the superintendent. 



THE SCHOOL. 



This is the most promising and encouraging feature of our entire 

 work. We deny that we are discouraged — that we have the blues 

 or any form of liver complaint — as some may infer from certain 

 statements in our report. That we have made mistakes and that 

 the work has sufTered by them we admit. That others could have 

 done better we most firmly believe, but by the grace of God we are 

 what we are, and in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ we shall 

 hammer away until something breaks. ^ 



Dr. Arthur J. Brown, a most careful, practical, business-like sec- 

 retary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, says it will 

 take two or three generations to make good strong characters of 

 the Filipinos. Similar testimony could be produced in regard to 

 work among any people so far lost as these. While education can 

 never produce character, it will most effectually banish superstition 

 and devil worship, and we can see these things are fast losing their 

 hold on the younger people on the island. 



To more fully appreciate the attendance on school during the year 

 it will be necessary to bear in mind the census figures, which are 

 as follows: 



Census figures, Gambell, St. Lawrence Island, January 15, 1904. 

 Ago: 



Under 6 — 



Boys 14 



Girls _ 13 



6 to 14— 



Boys 29 



Girls 20 



14 to 21— 



Boys 30 



Girls 10 



Mon 00 



Woinon ?4 



Total 250 



Widows , 12 



Full orplians 9 



Half oiplians 39 



Now from this population, increased by the arrival of 19, the 

 entire population of the small village at Southwest Cape, in the first 



