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and is buried across the creek, opposite the dugout, -which, by the way, caved in 

 before he died and nearly caught him. The carpenter and two men we left hero 

 during the six weeks made great improvement in and about the station. I will try 

 to describe the house. The room made for Mr. Bruce last year is the same, only 

 with double floor and walls. The hall is the width, taking in the outside door. 

 They filled in with earth under the entire flooring of the house, even with the 

 rafters. A double floor has been laid, with tar paper between, throughout tho 

 entire length and width of the house, from the hall to the other end of the house. 

 The two front rooms are used by Mrs. Lopp, her private room and a kitchen off it. 

 By the side of this is the assistant's room and a dark room used for immediate 

 stores. From this a ladder runs up to the attic. This, too, has a double floor, aud 

 the whole house has double sides, with tar paper between. They are sadly in want 

 of double windows. They built a "lean-to" the whole length of the house. On 

 one end is a very large storeroo n, with double water-closets off that. The rest is 

 one long room for the herders. They have a stove, a table, knives, forks, every- 

 thing to make their table look nice and civilized. There are two benches for seats 

 around it. 



I saw them at supper and they seemed pei'fectly happy and contented. Along 

 the side of the wall are built some eight or ten bunks. With these they are par- 

 ticularly happy. The news of this improvemeut had reached the Siberian side by 

 the time we went back, and the old herders wanted to return. The new herder is so 

 pleased he says next year he will bring his wife and deer over and take up his resi- 

 dence at Port Clarence. Charley and Mary are to work for the Lopps. Charley has 

 built a lo» - house near the Lopps. I wish you could see it. It is fine. Mr. Lopp, in 

 fixing the attic of the house, fouud 27 pairs of deer horns. The baby is doing well, 

 and is very cute. Mary adopted a little baby boy 5 months old whose mother was 

 going to kill it. She carries it on her back, and takes the best of care of the little 

 thing. It is the third she has saved from death. She is truly a Christian soul, and 

 a good example for others to follow. She says there were several killed last winter. 

 This would, indeed, be a truly Christian missionary work, to save these little ones 

 from death at the hands of their mothers and others. We have had a most disagree- 

 able summer, such dense and heavy fogs to conteud with, and the cold intense. 

 Truly your good angel called you home in time to escape the most disagreeble part 

 of the cruise, for, up to the present time, August 25, we have had but one pleasant 

 day. Do you remember the crazy man we took on board at Port Clarence? Well, 

 he went to Mr. Wadsworth the other day and said, "Mr. Tineye, will you give me 

 a glass of whisky 1" We have still another on board whom they are obliged to keep 

 watch of, aud at night he is chained to his bed, for he is bent on self-destructiou. 

 The doctor had him on deck the other day for an airing. Crazy No. 1 came up aud 

 said, "Hello, pard. You work this racket better than me, for I have to work and 

 you don't. How do you manage it? You know you are no more crazy than I am. 

 You are only lazy. Go to work, and you will get $30 per month." The man to 

 whom he was talking was perfectly oblivious of what he was saying, but it amused 

 us much. 



On August 27 we stopped at Cape Prince of Wales to take Mr. and Mrs. Thornton 

 down, should they have concluded to leave. We were surprised to find no one came 

 oil' to meet us, and the village seemed deserted of Indians. We remained all night, 

 the captain giving orders that Mr. .Jarvis and Mr. White should go ashore early in 

 the morning and lind out where Mr. and Mrs. Thornton were. They came off in a 

 short time with two notes from Mrs. Thornton, and told the captain that Mr. Thorn- 

 ton was killed on the 19th of August by three of their scholars, and that his body 

 still lay in the house unburied. The natives took his wife to Port Clarence. So 

 the captain had a coffin made and sent Mr. Jarvis ashore to bury him, with Mr. Jacobs, 

 who read prayers over him. They killed him in the darkest part of the night with 

 a whale gun. They knocked at the door aud he stepped from his bedroom into the 



