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'Voon I.u.awt). Kont a k, Alaska
Cunifcoff or Ufcairuu: Island
Oh:-wo,T Idae.d, by Mr. Alexand
er T1 »ranoff first representative of the
Russian colony in Alaska, was made
•«* penal place for any flight misbe
havior on the part of the natives.
The people that were sent, there with
ut any specified length of time, had
' work th^re, snaring g?ound squir
rol«, tan and sewing the skins into
irkiesta long gown)without any re
muneration for it but. now and then a
i.-v vards of unbleached cotton and
u»?e tobacco but noflom, tea or sugar,
rhev were obliged to sustain them
. dve«« wUh whst they could find on
hat desolate island, such as: salmon
which rut' there rather sparingly,
• lam*, ! ducks, haiiseals, squirrels
neat, r • T,pnili r had no joins
«.nd ammunition but snares, bow, ar
; >ws and sp**ars wi*h bone points.
Thcr ■ grow gome berries also suoh a a
salmon berries, ahikshas and monish
cas black and yellow mi as berries
which they put in seal nil for winter
use. Looking over thin resourceful
hill of fur** you would imagine that
they have had enough and plenty to
sustain themselves hut, consider first
their scanty garments, second their
v> ea:> ns and third the elements of the
weather and wi uld c one to conclusion
that such scanty diet could not keep a
man in good strong health very long.
So now and then some one will catch
cold or some other sickness (n-> doc
tor and no medicine to help one) uat
orally dies there and buried in prim
itiveway. And in course of forty or
so years, quite a number of them died
there Sometime after, some sea ot
ter hunters and squirrel trappers wont
to spend two or throe years at it
but they told when they came bach
here, that the i s 1 and L badly
haunted. Some nights they would
hear some heavy tramping* of feet a
row! d their houses, whistling h shrill
sound up hill or some y, here or throw
ing rocks at their hut roofs so they
could bear it no longer t > 8*ny there
and would come back . As they have
heard that, in former years, people
were buried there without any burial
rights or prayers and they must have
been shamans, (medicine n:en)
JS, 4 .£
After Six Ye.irs
Six years sgo the 6th of this month
occurred the eruption of Mt. Katmai,
the effects of which are still much in
evidence. The b'wer limbs of many
trees src still fastened to the earth by
the weight <>f the ash upon them.
Walking thro the woods cones of ash
are upon on the tops of stumps over
which a blanket of green moss haw
prown. On the limbs of trees, ridges
of ash still lit* Undislodged by winds,
rains and snow, s of six rears On lev
el ground the depth of the ash i-i about
Sin. In the cracks running in ev
ery direction. over such peaces, moss
has grown, iividing- i» into mir.a
ture fields with tiny hedges On the
momitiatis there are great patches of
ash which in summer look like snow.
However the ash has not proved a dis
aster, but that is another story.