. Shores and Alps of Alaska . rs to replacethe famous Dr. Ballou. One of them, whosename was Louis Carlsen, informed us that he hadcome to Alaska four years ago from Stromsdal nearGothenburg, and that with his brother and twoother Swedes by the name of Andersen they hadtaken up the store built here two years ago bythe Alaska Commercial Company and vacated lastyear as not profitable, as well as a small store whichthey had constructed on Kaiak Island further upthe coast, where they were engaged in huntingand in trading with the natives. He further informed us that his partners wouldcall here nex
. Shores and Alps of Alaska . rs to replacethe famous Dr. Ballou. One of them, whosename was Louis Carlsen, informed us that he hadcome to Alaska four years ago from Stromsdal nearGothenburg, and that with his brother and twoother Swedes by the name of Andersen they hadtaken up the store built here two years ago bythe Alaska Commercial Company and vacated lastyear as not profitable, as well as a small store whichthey had constructed on Kaiak Island further upthe coast, where they were engaged in huntingand in trading with the natives. He further informed us that his partners wouldcall here next month, in a small schooner theyowned; following the example of one of them, heintended to visit his home in Sweden, and return TWO SWEDISH TRADERS. 53 from thence in the spring, with a wife. He ex-pressed himself as very pleased to see the man-o-war, because the Indians had lately becometroublesome and threatening, but now they woulddo whatever was required of them. He had evenbeen obliged to menace them with the visit of a. The Village of the Yakatat Indians. man-o-war if they did not behave. Our timelyarrival had thus acted as a corroboration of histhreat. The Yakatats have lately been distilling agood deal of the vile spirit like voclki from sugar,and have been so frequently drunk that the traderswere glad their store was as far removed from thevillage as it was. His brother Olaf was waiting 54 SHORES AND ALPS OF ALASKA. for him at Kaiak Island and would return withhim to Sweden, for the first and last time in twelveyears. Their small schooner would be laid up towinter at Kaiak. From thence they would go bycanoe to Prince William Sound, where they couldpick up the Alaska Commercial Companys schooner,and thus reach Kodiak Island, where probably avessel would call in September, on her way to SanFrancisco, from Unalaska, or if not, the schooneritself would be going down to California. It was not, altogether, with unmixed pleasurewe found that there were white traders here, as
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