Alaska, where the daily cue put dur
iug the season is 50,000 cans. In this
cannery at least, th*- product is clean
and carefully handled.
At this tovn we found a small creft
of the traveling Missionary for that
district. Under Rev. Berk’s cafe are
hundreds of souls When the people
leave their homes for the canneries as
they do each year he follows them up,
working aud preaching among them
during the day and long summer ev
enings, and traveling at night. Ilia
wife laughingly said that she was
the pilot and engineer while her hus
band slept and we all wondered when
she slept
Would you thiuk of visiting h cem
etery \ We did. and found if to be a
page in the history »>f the native peo
ple This burial ground i?« situated
on the steep sides of a small island
which rises abruptly out of the sea.
A tangle of vines made it difficult to
walk about. Tn fact we made our
way in several places by climbing the
bare roots o/ trees which formed im
provised ladders We found a group '
of old totem pole# about ready to fall
and near bv a beautiful American
flag floating serenely in the breeze.
Two very contrasting features you
will agree, for the totems serve to re
mind the succeeding generations of
old grudges and hatreds, while our
flag stands for life, liberty and love
of follow man. Again we saw a
modern slab tomb stone whose in
scription «'i»c in wall engraved King’s
English with small totems carved on
both sides. Rot most touching per
haps, was a beautiful Chileat blanket
sown to a ridge pole and flapping ov
er a lonely cement covered grave
This elaborate blanket we wore told
was th-j proudest possession of a young
Indian vhose bride had suddenly
died. And in honor of her memory
he dedicated hie best. Thru storm
ami sunshine this monumental love
token may be seen by all who pms
that way.
Not many glaciers were to he
seen at olose range but in several
places we met with great sheets of ice
having at last found their way to the
sea
Rev Geo. A. I.earc met us at Val
dez wnere he had been on a business
trip between boatu.
Wo took a pleasant walk up the
beach at Snug Harbor, and in the
distance of not more than one and one
half miles we saw, lam sure, not less
than fifteen water falls; some misty
and filmy others riotous and turn
bluig, all beautiful, while the snow
capped Mt. Illiamna loomed upacrosM
the Inlet.
We wore glad for the three nr four
days "pent in Cook’* Inlet; with land
hII about wo felt very much at home.
Some of the small towns along the
way remind one of gray weather hea'
en nests, while others are very much
like our dean well ordered busy cit
ies of tile west. Some have railway
trains, ehnrchig, etc; while others
liRven’t even a street; however in a!
most every community one may s»e
the npire of a Russian Church.
On Sunday July 18th after ll^dayr
out of Seattle we steamed slowly thru
St. Paul's Harbor and into St. Paul's
Straits On our rig lit lay Kodiak Is
lain! with i»s many mountain peak a
and merged cobs*a Hiid on the left.
Wood Island with a pallisade of rock
to the sea and a gently sloping coa*»
line to the straits, uitebed here and
there wi*h small hays. Heyond the
WireU*8s -Station we could catch
glimpses now and th-m of our future
home, the K. B O. It was an excite
ing half hour spent on the Kodiak