. Alaska and its resources. rned we gave our watch-man the swan to pick, to keep him awake, and turning in, weresoon lost in slumber. Wednesday, loih. — We pushed out into the rapid current veryearly in the day, while we saw nothing more of our Innuit friends,who were probably sleeping off their headaches. We pulled hard,hoping to reach the Mission before night. We passed a village THE YUKON TERRITORY. 223 of two houses, called Manki, interesting principally as being themost inland Innuit village on the Yukon. The difference ofstock was apparent only from the countenances of the nativesand the
. Alaska and its resources. rned we gave our watch-man the swan to pick, to keep him awake, and turning in, weresoon lost in slumber. Wednesday, loih. — We pushed out into the rapid current veryearly in the day, while we saw nothing more of our Innuit friends,who were probably sleeping off their headaches. We pulled hard,hoping to reach the Mission before night. We passed a village THE YUKON TERRITORY. 223 of two houses, called Manki, interesting principally as being themost inland Innuit village on the Yukon. The difference ofstock was apparent only from the countenances of the nativesand the dialect which they spoke. The latter exhibited no signsof any mixture of Indian words. It was quite incomprehensibleto my men, who had been able to converse freely at the last vil-lage. I could understand only a few words, which resembled theMahlemut, though the grammatical construction was the same asthat of the other Innuit dialects. These natives belong to theEkogumt (sometimes called Kwikhpdgmut) tribe, and are known.
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