. Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska. ild Eskimo children. At the beginning of the school year only afew could count ten in a blundering fashion, and nine-tenths of the pupils knewpractically no English whatever. At the close of the first school year they had acood working vocabularv, knew something of geography and map-drawing, under-stood thorouohly the decimal basis of our numbers, could count up to one thousand,work examples in simple addition, write and read simple English words and carryon a conversation in English on everyday practical matters. The pupils showed a
. Seal and salmon fisheries and general resources of Alaska. ild Eskimo children. At the beginning of the school year only afew could count ten in a blundering fashion, and nine-tenths of the pupils knewpractically no English whatever. At the close of the first school year they had acood working vocabularv, knew something of geography and map-drawing, under-stood thorouohly the decimal basis of our numbers, could count up to one thousand,work examples in simple addition, write and read simple English words and carryon a conversation in English on everyday practical matters. The pupils showed aremarkable desire to learn for learnings sake. During 1891-92 the average dailyattendance was 106, and during 1892-93, 160. ^ . +. ^ ^^:„ In the summer of 1893 Mr. W. T. Lopp was appointed superintendent of the rein-deer station at Port Clarence, and with his wife removed to that place, leaving Mrs. H. R. Thornton in charge of the mission. On the 19th of August, 1893 MrThornton was assassinated by two young men whom he had expelled from school for. ALASKA INDUSTRIES. 595 disorderly conduct. The community at once showed their horror at the act bysummarily killing both the murderers. After the death of her husband Mrs. Thornton returned to her parents in Maine,and the mission was closed for the season of 1893-94. During the summer of 1894 Mr. Lopp returned to Cape Prince ofWales and reopened the school. July 30 found us wind-bound in the lee of Chamisso Island, KotzebueSound. While here a search party for Mr. Gibson, a missing trader,was organized. Lieutenant White was put in charge, and, with , Mr. Justice, and myself as passengers, the expedition left theship in one of the sailing cutters at 4 a. m. on August 1. Mr. Gibsonslast camp, according to the native who accompanied us, had been onthe Buckland Eiver, which empties into Eschscholtz Bay, at thehead of Kotzebue Sound. In our trip we followed the course taken byCaptain Beechey in the expedition of Her Majest
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