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TREATY CONFIRMED. 
display of their powers of entertainment, intended to 
solicit from us a reception; and the invitation once 
given, all their experience and impulses assured them 
of safety. 
“Every thing they had, cooking-utensils, snow-melfc- 
ing stone, scanty weapons of the chase, personal ser¬ 
vice, pledges of grateful welcome,—they gave them all. 
KOTLIK, WITH OUR OWN KOLUP SOOT. 
They confirmed all Metek’s engagements, as if the 
whole favor was for them; and when our party was 
coming away they placed on the sledge, seemingly as 
a matter of course, all the meat that was left. 
“September 20, Wednesday.—The natives are really 
acting up to contract. They are on board to-day, and 
I have been off with a party of them on a hunt inland. 
We had no great luck; the weather was against us, 
