Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1902-07-09

pear like spring. Have had quite bit |
of doctoring to do as quite number
were used up by the long duration of
the storm.
Sunday May %.
We have just arrived at Dutch
Harbor, where we take coal and over.
haul our engines etc. Two miles away
is Unslaska post office and the custom
house, where we 20 tomorrow morning
to enter and clear the vessel and expect
to go on our way tomorrow night.
We are now in Behring Sea and don't
anticipate much bad weather, but
pleanty of ice instead. The scenery is
beautiful here. Just imagine high
mountain like Mt. Raineer, covered
with snow, at the very peak of which is
an active volcano sending forth great
volumes of smoke. Such was the sight
yesterday. The sun is with us q good
share of the "a hours now. We are al
most In the LAND of the Midnight |
Sum-" Barring accidente, in q week or
ten days we will be at Nome.
The Aleut Indians here are about
like those of the Sound generally. The
schools, such IS there are, teach English
and so the younger people speak it ex-
clusively, the older ones prefer the
Chinook jargon.
My health is good, except a slight touch
of dyspepsia, the result of over feeding.
Have gained ten pounds since l left
Hawaii.
Uncle Sam has no lighthouses in
Alaska, just think of it, thousands of
miles of shore line and not single
mark to aid the mariner.
Don't know when this letter will
reach you as there is no regular COM
munication, will write you from Nome
and It may be that letter will reach you
first. CHAs.
Behring Sea,
Tuesday, May 81,
We left Dutch Hsrbor this morning
but had only got out about five miles
when we picked up the big ship Flor
ence with 5000 tons of coal, and took
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