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and neither man, woman, nor child turned eyes toward 

 the company of strange white people which crowded into 

 the church behind them. 



Their sawmill, salmon cannery, and four stores give 

 the community a comfortable support. Among the men 

 are blacksmiths, carpenters, shoemakers, tailors, and other 

 handicraftsmen. They have built their own houses, their 

 church, their school-house,guest-house,and council-house. 

 Some of the dwellings are two stories and a half in height, 

 comfortable in appearance, and neatly kept. 



At Juneau a few Indians were seen, 

 chiefly men in their canoes starting 

 out for the fishing, or women sitting 

 on the wharves offering their bas- 

 kets and other simple articles made 

 for trade. At Sitka, however, the 

 Indians were more numerous. Here 

 III! we had an opportunity not only to 

 see something of the Indians and 

 of how they lived in their old-time 

 way, but also to examine the Shel- 

 don Jackson Museum, and in some 

 of the stores, a great deal of material in the way of the 

 primitive implements which are now practically discarded. 



When the Russians reached 

 the place where Sitka now 

 stands they found a camp of 



CARVED DANCING MASK. 



CARVED DISHES, SITKA. 



Indians from a village called Sitko, on the opposite side of 

 the island. The Russians questioned the Indians as to who 



