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ALASKA. 
The Aleuts have become thoroughly Russianized. They talk 
Russian, belong to the Russian Orthodox Church, shade off into 
Russian blood, features, and complexion, and affect Russian ideas. 
They are rapidly fading away. Their physical condition is far 
from being satisfactory, and their moral condition is worse. They 
are an easy-going, gentle, and kindly disposed people, somewhat 
lacking in force of character. They secure a comfortable living 
with their sea-otter hunting and fishing, and have little forethought 
as to the future. 
The Thlingkets, Tsimpseans, and Hydas live in southeastern 
Alaska and are very similar in character and habits, though their 
languages are different. Their contact with white people has very 
much modified them in many respects, and many of them now 
converse freely in the English language, while a few of them read 
and write. 
