such United States naval or revenue vessel as may happen to be 
present. Instructions from the government direct the Commander 
of the man-of-war to prevent crime and preserve peace among 
whites and Indians. lie is authorized to arrest, fine, and imprison 
for a certain period in minor offenses, but all capital offenses must 
be transferred to the nearest United States court for trial. The 
manufacture of any kind of liquor, its introduction, or the intro¬ 
duction of materials from which it could be made, such as sugar, 
molasses, etc., except to authorized merchants, are forbidden. 
The Indians have learned from the whites the process of distilling 
intoxicating drinks, and with an ordinary tin can and worm, the 
latter made of a sea plant, find little difficulty in supplying their 
alcoholic wants, if the material with which to make it is at hand. 
Alaska has found one friend in the United States which con¬ 
tinues faithful—the Missionary. With a view to the early evan¬ 
gelism of the Indians an American Mission was established soon 
after the purchase of the Territory. Such religious teaching as 
the Indians in Southern Alaska have received, prior to the estab¬ 
lishment of the American Mission, was in the Greek Church at 
Sitka and Kodiak, remnants of which exist at these places. 
During the past few years five stations have been established by 
the mission above referred to on the waters of the Alexandria 
Archipelago, remotely situated, and with a result encouraging to 
the most despairing. The success of the schools it has estab¬ 
lished at Sitka and Wrangel for the Christian education of Indian 
boys and girls, with instruction in practical duties also, is now, 
after years of labor, considered settled. Each year these institu¬ 
tions have yielded better and more mature fruit, a result surely 
gratifying to us, but not to be compared with that experienced by 
the earnest and pious men and women engaged in this noble work. 
In instance of the devotion of these good people, it may not be 
amiss to state that the last and most northern mission established 
in Alaska was on Lynn Channel, at the head of inland navigation, 
where is located a large village of Chilcat Indians, who are con¬ 
sidered the most savage in the Territory. At the mission here 
was found a Pennsylvania lady of wealth and culture and extremely 
delicate physique, occupying a few rooms, with no other compan¬ 
ionship than her husband, infant and a white trader. Fifty miles 
