66 ANTHROrOLOGICAL SURVEY IN ALASKA [HTH. ANN. 46 



even patches of sun appear on far-away clean-cut hills. Water not 

 very rough; make fair time downstream. Banks flat now. river 

 broad, some hills in distance. 



8.00 p. m. Hills nearer ahead of us. Some of the flats look from 

 distance like fine tree nurseries. Getting cool. Cloudy ahead. The 

 banks flat and low, no good site for habitation. Not even fishing 

 camps here — just long " cut-banks " (banks being cut by the river) 

 and low beaches. Here and there new bars and islands that are 

 being built by the river. No birds, no boats, just an occasional 

 floating snag or a rare solitary gull. 



Paimute 



Paimute down river, I am told, lias nothing but Eskimo; Holy 

 Cross, hut a few natives now. mainly Indian; above Holy Cross, 

 Indian. Eskimo only as adapted or in admixture. 



July 3, 8.30 p. m. Hills on right now right before us. Behind first 

 a fish camp of the Holy Cross Mission natives. River narrows and 

 bends. Two other fish camps become visible. Stop; damp, cold, 

 smoke, fish smell, a few natives, Eskimo. River now like molten 

 glass, but air damp and cold, and I must sit behind the engine and 

 keep my hands over the hot exhaust pipe to keep somewhat com- 

 fortable. 



Pass bulging bluffs on right — old stratified shales. 



11.00 p. m. Arrive at our destination about 11 p. m. But a few log 

 huts on the right side of the river, with few others and a primitive 

 frame church in the back. A little store and a big storehouse (with 

 skins, etc.), trader's house (log cabin) a few rods away. Open 

 store, only to find that a pup had been forgotten there, made a lot 

 of mess and dirt and ate most of one side of bacon. 



12.00 p. m. Got to bed in the cabin at 12. Spread bed roll on 

 two reindeer skins which, with fire in the stove, keep me fairly warm. 

 Rain in night and several earth tremors — common in these parts; 

 feel several light ones every night and a stronger one occasionally 

 even in daytime (a big " fault " in the Alaskan range and a prox- 

 imity to the Aleutian volcanic zone). 



Awake before 8, but as it still rains nothing can be done, while 

 my man within a few feet of me still snores; stay in blanket till 9. 

 Modest breakfast at 10 a. m. 



10.00 a. m. A little house cleaning — watch kitten clean windows 

 of the many flies, which it eats; and then my man, a Swede by birth, 

 sailor, self-taught painter (of ships ami sea scenes), and musician 

 (accordion), goes to bail out the boat. Still full of bites that itch 

 and need a lot of Aseptinol, which in turn makes underwear look 

 dreadful. And no bath possible. 



