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is of the same type as that at the museum in Juneau and the two 

 in the east, one at the Museum of the American Indian, New York, 

 and the other at the University Museum, Philadelphia. Regret- 

 tably Mr. Miiller would not part with the specimen. (See also p. 34.) 



The natives of Kaltag, so far as seen, are more Eskimoid than 

 those of any of the other settlements farther up the river. 



Fine evening; sit with a passenger going to Nome, until late. 

 Learn that the boat to St. Michael is waiting for this boat and will 

 go right on — not suitable for my work. Also we are to stop but a 

 few minutes at Anvik, where I am to meet Doctor Chapman, the 

 missionary. 



Sunday, June 27. About 5 a. m. arrive in the pretty cove of 

 Anvik. Received on the bank by Doctor Chapman, the head of the 

 local Episcopalian mission and school, and also the Anvik post- 

 master. The doctor for the present is alone, his wife and daughter 

 having gone to Fairbanks, and so he is also the cook and everything. 

 In a few minutes, with the help of some native boys, I am with 

 my boxes in Doctor Chapman's house, and after the boat has left 

 and the necessities connected with what she left attended to we 

 have breakfast. I am soon made to feel as much as possible " at 

 home, 7 ' and we have a long conversation. Then see a number of 

 chronic patients and incurables; attend a bit lengthy service in 

 Doctor Chapman's near-by little church ; have a lunch with the 

 ladies at the school; visit the hill graveyard. They have reburied 

 all the older remains and there is nothing left. Attend an afternoon 

 service and give a talk to the congregation of about half a dozen 

 whites and two dozen more or less Eskimoid Indians on the Indians 

 and our endeavors; and then do some writing, ending the day by 

 going out for about a mile and a half along the banks of the Anvik 

 River, looking in vain for signs of something older, human or 

 animal. (PI. 2, c.) 



There are many and bad gnats here just now — how bad I only 

 learned later, when I found my whole body covered with patches 

 of their bites; and also many mosquitoes, which proved particularly 

 obnoxious during the lunch. As the doctor is alone, the three excel- 

 lent white ladies of the school, matron and teachers, invited us, as 

 already mentioned, to lunch with them. We had vegetable soup, 

 a bit of cheese, two crackers each, a piece of cake, and tea. But I 

 chose an outlandish chair the seat of which was made of strips of 

 hide with spaces between ; and from the beginning of the lunch to its 

 end there was a struggle between the proprieties of the occasion and 

 the mosquitoes that kept on biting me through the spaces in the seat. 

 Chairs of this type, and I finally told that to the ladies to explain 

 my seeming restlessness during the meal, should be outlawed in 

 Alaska. 



