Identifier: trailstrampsinal01thom (find matches)
Title: Trails and tramps in Alaska and Newfoundland
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Thomas, William S., 1858- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Hunting Birds
Publisher: New York, London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Seward placer mines of the Susitna Valley. Likea great many other projects of this kind,there was not sufficient money subscribed tofinish the undertaking, and the companywas forced into the hands of a receiver. The next stop on our way west was Sel-dovia. The old Russian church where weattended services was built on a little knollthat overlooked the harbor, and from it we
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70 Observations on Kodiak Island could see the native burial ground with itsdilapidated grave marks. When we enteredthe church the natives did not seem to bemuch interested in us. While the sermonis being delivered the women occupy oneside of the house and the men the other.During the services they paid close attentionto what was going on. There were no seatsin the church and all the parties stood duringthe entire time of worship. When the in-cense was being burned, filling the room withsweet fragrance, the expression on the featuresof the worshipers manifested a devout frameof mind and spirit not often in evidence. In the harbor were hundreds of gulls,floating leisurely on the surface of the wateror standing on the logs that drifted with thetide. Among the passengers on the steamer wasa delicate little lady with her three-year-oldchild, who was on the way to meet her hus-band at Iliamnia, some sixty miles acrossthe bay. I remember how indignant thepassengers were when they learned th

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