Kalitan, Our Little Alaskan Cousin

. Indeed they seem to dislike salt very much. It had taken Ted some time to learn to eat all his meat and fish quite fresh, without a taste of salt, but he had grown to like it. Th

m from the porcupine's quills, and he felt tired and lazy. He lay by the camp-fire one afternoon listening to Kalitan

the matt

tired," said Ted,

poison hand. Wel

wasn't the bear you mistook for an Alaskan posy and tried to pic

we come to have

ory," said his father,

t, but what did we pay the Indians for it? I shouldn'

re was a sudden gleam in his dark

sell," he said.

is hand kindly o

e Russians never conquered the Thlink

d for him, and a number of islands. Some of these were not inhabited, others had Indians or Esquimos on them, but, after the manner of the early discoverers, Bering took possession of them all i

t Sitka, where you can see the ruins of the splendid castle he built. The Russians also sent missionaries to convert the Indians to the Greek Church, which is the church of Russia. The Indians, however, never learned to care for the Russians, and often were cruelly treated by them. The Russians, howev

immense amount of money made for the government by the seal fisheries, the cod and salmon industries, and the opening of the gold fields. The resources of the country are not half-known, and the government is beginning to see this. That is one of the reasons they have sent me here, with the other men, to find out what the earth holds for those who do not know how to look for its treasures. Gold is not the best thing the earth produces. There is land in Alaska little known full of coal and other useful minerals. Other l

ut we are beginning to wake up now, and twenty years more will see the Indians of Kalitan's generation industrious men and

e by the river-bank. Kalitan dropped everything and ran without a word, scudding like the arrow from which he took his name. Before Ted could follow or ask what was the matter, from the ocean a huge body rose ten

" said his father; but, at the word "whale," Ted had started after Kalit

n over his shoulder, as both bo

go in that frail bark in pursuit of the mighty monster. The old man's face, however, was as calm as though start

d idly up and down like a great puppy at play. He stopped the kiak and watched; then poised his

wer of all the Thlinkits," sa

eyes passed from fish to man and back agai

is tail, and may destroy his enemy, and this is a moment of terrible danger to the harpooner. But the whale was too much astonished to fight,

ANOTHER STI

een minutes, for whales often stay under water for twenty minutes before

ain, swift and, oh! so sure of aim. This time the whale struck out wildly, and Kalitan held his breath, while Ted gasped at the Tyee's danger,

only a few minutes, and, when he came up, blood spouted i

lungs! Now

through the air, and Ted noticed attached to it by

on that

to the harpoon, and when the lance sticks into the whale, the buoy make

ng out to sea, and at last the Tyee seemed satisfied. He sent a last look

mes to shore,"

ou do with i

oil in a bowl with a bit of pith in it to light our huts. The bones are all useful in building our houses. Whales were once bears, but they

at any rate," laughed Ted. "I saw it flap at the

drew near them, and he stepped ashore as calmly as though he had not j

TNO

, General Agent of Educ