Kalitan, Our Little Alaskan Cousin

er toward Kalitan's island home. Ted was so excited that he could hardly sit s

ion with Mr. Strong. The result was astonishing to Teddy, for his father told him that he was to go for a month to the islan

ar better time on the island with Kalitan than you could possibly have loafing around the camp here. You couldn't go to many places where I am going, and, if my mind is easy about you, I can take Chetwoof and

, but his face soon cleared up. "A

most boys would be crazy over, and you'll have tales to tell when you get home to make your playmates envy you. I'm glad I have a son I can trust to keep straight when he is out of my si

ms!" he exclaimed. Mr. Str

h Kalitan as falling off a glacier or two, as y

-bye to his father, but Kalitan quickly di

the dim outline of land to which Ted's thoughts had so often

"To think I shall see all that

berry dance if you stay long enough, perhaps

to Kalitan, and he laughed a little, and

much as a Boston boy," said Kalitan,

some native houses clustered picturesquely against them at the crest of a small hill w

EOPLE AWAITIN

m welcome as the canoes touched land and their occupants sprang on shore. The boys crowded around the young Indian and chattered and gesticulate

etty, and the babies were as cunning as the puppies. They barked every time the dogs did, in a fu

natural. Nearly all spoke some English, and he rapidly added to his store of Chinook, so that he had no trouble in making himself understoo

ed was much interested in seeing him gradually disposed of. Great masses of blubber were stripped from the sides to be used later both for food and fuel, the whalebon

ings done with the whale, but there wa

ate, and slept. The girls had blankets strung across one corner, behind which were the

all their cooking, and are very fond of it. Ted ate also dried seaweed, chopped and boiled in seal oil, which tasted very much like boiled and salted leather, but he liked it very well. Indeed he grew so strong and well, out-of-doo

nd many were dried for the coming winter, while clams, gum-boots, sea-cucum

ugh only fifteen, was soon to be married to Tah-ge-ah, a fine young Indian who was

four hundred blankets for her, and my uncle is well pleased. Many only pay ten blankets for a wife, but of course we would no

d as dirty as dogs on the sidewalk, and didn't seem to care how they looked. They had baskets to sell, and were to

Ted added, "I guess the Thlinkits

ghed outrig

od at the mission school, marry Tah-ge-ah, and make people better. She c

id Ted. "But, Kalitan

ves away all his goods for others? That is what a great potlatch is. When white men give us whiskey and it is drunk too much, then it is very bad. But Tyee w

It seems to me that there are good and bad ones in all countries. It's a pity you h

hlinkit men and Boston men,

TNO

gerous c

and water fermented. The bad Indians mix it with sugar, flour,