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islaud aud what did you learn at that school ? — A. I went to school 

 when 1 was five years old. 



Q. And continued until you were A. Fifteen years. 



Q. Kow, what did you learn at that school during that time? — A. I 

 learned to write and read and spell. 



Q. Did you learn any arithmetic ? — Yes, sir. 



Q. Geography ? — A. Yes, sir. 



Q. So you learned spelling, reading, writing, arithmetic, and geog- 

 raphy at a school maintained by the Alaska Commercial Company ? — 

 A. Yes, sir. 



Q. Were other children attending school at the same time that learned 

 these branches "? — A. Yes, sir. 



Q. Now what do you say as to the majority of the young men of your 

 age resident on the island ; have they learned to read and write, or 

 not ? — A. Yes, sir ; they have learned to read and write. 



Q. And know something about arithmetic aud geography f — A. Yes, 

 sir. 



Q. A majority of the men on the island, which they have learned at 

 the company's school f — A. Yes, sir. 



Q. After you quit going to school there, you went to San Francisco ; 

 the company sent you there and you went to school— the high school at 

 San Francisco ? — A. No ; I went to school at Napa. 



Q. Have you been in the habit since then of going back to engage in 

 ■work ' — A. Yes, sir. 



Q. What do you do ? — A. Flipped the seals ; cut them open. 



Q. You were a sealer on the islands, working like any other common 

 hand ? — A. Yes, sir. 



Q. Do you get your share of the pay ? — A. Yes, sir. 



Q. How much i^ay do you get ? — A. Five hundred aud sixty-odd 

 dollars last year. 



Q. Now, what did it cost you to live there, or would cost any man liv- 

 ing on the Island who works for the company' ; there is no rent"? — A. 

 No, sir. 



Q. He does not pay for salt meat ? — A. No, sir. 



Q. He does not eat any other kind of meat f — A. Yes, sir. 

 • Q. What does he eat ? — A. They have salt beef. 



Q. That he can buy from the company ? — A. Yes, sir. 



Q. Do you know what they pay for the beef f — A. 1 do not. 



Q. They do not eat much of that! — A. No, sir. 



Q. Then, under their contract, the company is obliged to furnish them 

 with dried salmon, dried flsh ? — A. No; salt fish. 



Q. Does the company supply that; all they want? — A, Yes, sir. 



Q. Aside then from what beef they buy there is nothing else they 

 need to buy except groceries and such luxuries as they want f — A. No, 

 sir; some of them are cheaper than I have seen in San Francisco. 



Q. Have a good many natives of St. Paul and St. George got money 

 on deposit at San Francisco, do you know? — A. I believe there are 

 quite a few on St. Paul Island. 



Q. Have you got any on deposit?— ^A. No, sir; I have not. 



Q. You spend your money ? — A. Yes, sir. 



Q. You must not do that. You must save it. Now with regard to 

 the Eussian school, where they teach Russian, that is under the man- 

 agement of the Church? — A. Yes, sir. 



Q. You have a priest at each island ? — A. Yes, sir. 



Q. Your people are a very religious i)eople? — A. Yes, sir. 



Q. And have a good many feasts and fasts and all that? — A. Yes, sir. 



