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ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND. 



By WtKT-jAM FuRMAN DoTY, Teciclier. 



fAfi^ijl«it-\14, 1898: Arrived on the Z>^^^ Nmie ait^v a voyage of tifty 

 days. Dry. Jackson and Gambell, Mr. Brevig, and I were kept busy 

 during several hours superintending the unloading of supplies, a por- 

 tion of which belonged to me, while a larger part by far were the 

 Government stores which could not be left as originally intended at 

 Perkins, Siberia. Permission was given to me to purchase part of 

 these goods, in order to trade with the natives. A signboard with 

 the name ""^ Gambell" painted on it was placed on the front face of the 

 station building, to the end that the village might thereafter be desig- 

 nated in honor of the noble missionaries, the late Mr, Gambell and 

 wife. There w^cre many expressions on the part of the people, in 

 broken English, of veneration for the character of their two ))enefac- 

 tors, whose loss they sincerely mourned. 



Jercmias Abrahamsen, a Norwegian who had come over with the 

 "Lapp part}^" last March, has been left with me as "helper." We 

 are the only two Caucasians at this place, and probably the only ones 

 on the entire island, since the Del Norte steamed away this evening. 



August 15: Aljrahamsen and I cleaned a portion of the coal house 

 preparatory to storing there the 45 tons of coal belonging to the Gov- 

 ernment. 



August 10: P^mploj^ed possibl}^ 70 persons in all to "pack" the coal 

 from the beach to the coal house. Abrahamsen directed operations 

 on the l)each, while I managed the stowing away of the coal and at the 

 same time "kept tally" for each carrier. 



August 18: Fifteen men were engaged to help A})rahauisen and 

 myself in removing some Government supplies, which had been tem- 

 porarily placed in the schoolroom, to the storehouse. 



August 19: Cleaned house. 



August 21: Sunday school was held in the afternoon. The attend- 

 ance was probably about 100 persons of all ages. The children sang 

 some gospel hynms which my predecessor had taught them, and evi- 

 dently they enjoA'ed that part of the service greatly. 



August 22: Began a week of trading with the natives at their very 

 urgent request, for we were "settled," as the schoolhouse and other 

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