. Shores and Alps of Alaska . morning in the small, close, single room of the WE BECOME DISSIPATED. 183 Tyoon, which was his house, or give mortal offence,it was with reluctant steps that we led our Indianbrides, or rather partners, along the garbage-strewnpathway, preceded by players on the accordion andthe guitar, to where bright oil lamps and an un-usual number of candles marked his abode. Itwas in justand meritedretaliation,for, the firstnight, whenthe second chief had been honoured,it was the Tyoon who -^PJ!had cleared his room andremoved his stove and his door in expectation Nuchuk-The B
. Shores and Alps of Alaska . morning in the small, close, single room of the WE BECOME DISSIPATED. 183 Tyoon, which was his house, or give mortal offence,it was with reluctant steps that we led our Indianbrides, or rather partners, along the garbage-strewnpathway, preceded by players on the accordion andthe guitar, to where bright oil lamps and an un-usual number of candles marked his abode. Itwas in justand meritedretaliation,for, the firstnight, whenthe second chief had been honoured,it was the Tyoon who -^PJ!had cleared his room andremoved his stove and his door in expectation Nuchuk-The Baidars or Baiderars!p- • i \ i of the Copper River Indians. 01 our arrival. A de-scription of one nights festivity will serve forall four. Imagine, then, a one-roomed log-house, everycorner and seat occupied with children and grownpersons dressed in their dirty prints or cotton infants sleep peaceably through the noise ona bed under which some tamed wild-duck live andfeed. The half-dozen Aleut squaws who know the. iS4 SHORES AND ALPS OF ALASKA. figures of the Russian quadrille occupy prominentplaces on the floor, unless they have accompaniedus from the traders house. Partners is called,and we make sides and perform the different figuresto the various words of command shouted in amonotone by the trader, and which soon becamemechanically familiar, such as sides forward andback, one lady over, or balance and swing—swing, or grand right and left with double
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