BAKER.] 283 ITlet— Jttld. 



Metlakatla — Continued. 



village. It has been variously spelled Metlahcatlah, :Metlahkahtla, Metla- 

 katla, etc. The post-office was established here in October, 1888, and 

 spelled Metlakahtla. 



Prior to 1887 there was a village of Metlakatla Indians about 15 miles 

 south of Port Simpson, on the western shore of Chimsyan peninsula, 

 British Columbia, where the Scotch missionary, William Duncan, had 

 lived and successfully labored for many years. Owing to disagreement 

 with the established church, Duncan and his Indians, in 1887, al)andoned 

 their village, which thereafter became known a.s Old Metlakatla, and 

 founded the pre.sent Metlakatla, which was at first called New ^letlakatla, 

 and is sometimes still so called and sometimes Port Chester village. As 

 to this Capt. D. D. Gaillard, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., who surveyed 

 and built storehouses in Portland canal, in 1896, says (Senate Doc. No. 19, 

 Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, p. 4) : 



''The largest settlement in the region under discussion is at New 

 ]\Ietlakahtla (Port Chester), where there is a store, a cannery, a sawmill, 

 and about 850 Christian Indians who, in 1887, to obtain greater religious 

 liljerty, abandoned their village in British Columbia and followed their 

 devoted missionary, ^Ir. "William Duncan, to their present abode, upon 

 arrival at which it is said that they hoisted the United States flag and 

 formally transferred their allegiance from Canada to the United States. 

 By act of Congress, approved March 3, 1891, the body of lands known as 

 Annette Islands was set apart as a reservation 'for the use of the 

 Metlakahtla Indians and those persons known as Metlakahtlans who have 

 recently emigrated from British Columbia to Alaska, and such other 

 Alaskan natives as may join them,' etc." 



Mexico; point, on Prince of Wales island, in Cordova bay, Alexander archipelago. 

 Name published 1)y the Coast Survey in 1899. 



Meyer, peak; see ^Nlayer. 



Mice; islands, in Behm canal, opposite entrance to Rudyerd bay, southeastern 

 Alaska. So named by the Coast Survey in 1891. 



Mid; rock (25 feet high), between Cat and Dog islands, Gravina group, Alexander 

 archipelago. So named by Nichols in 1883. 



Middle; anchorage, between the Indian village at Sitka and Japonski island, Sitka 

 sound, Alexander archipelago. There are three anchorages. Eastern, 

 Middle, and Western. Descriptive appellation. 



Middle; arm, of Kelp bay, Baranof island, Chatham strait, Alexander archipelago. 

 So named by Moore in 1895. 



Middle; arm, of Three Arm bay, Adak island, middle Aleutians. Descriptive name, 

 given by Gibson in 1855. 



Middle; bay, an arm of Chiniak bay, Kodiak. Named Srednaia (middle) by the 

 Russians. 



Middle; bay, indenting the northern shore of Unalaska, between Kashega bay and 

 Chernofski harbor. Given the descriptive name Srednaia (middle) by 

 Veniaminof, 1840. The Fish Commission used this name :Middle in 1888. 

 Sarichef used the name Alinuida for this place, a name which belongs to 

 the bay next east of it. 



Middle; cape, on the northern coast of Kodiak, near Spruce island. Named Srednie 

 (middle) by Murashef in 1839-40. 



Middle; channel, leading into Sitka harbor, Sitka sound, Alexander archi]H'lago. 

 Named Srednie (middle) by the Russians. 



Middle; fork, of the Chandlar river. Descriptive name, from Schrader, in 18yy. 



