In Alaska.
At a special meeting of the Science Club last Thursday evening Fred Funston gave a very interesting talk about his travels in Alaska, during the last year, where he has been gathering botanical specimens. His lecture was made very interesting by illustrations, he having made good use of his camera. Prof. Blake aided the speaker by the use of the lantern. The lecture was given in the recitation room of the chemistry building, which was crowded to over flowing.
The speaker began by stating that on April the 16th last, on board the United States ship, Hussar, he left San Francisco with a surveying party, for Alaska. Nothing of importance occurred during the trip along the coast. Arriving at Fort Thompson, which is off the coast of British Columbia and Alaska, the course of the ship was directed through the channel or the inside passage of Alaska.
This channel is very dangerous for travel; it is cut up by innumerable islands and perilous straights, but the scenery along the passage is grand. Arriving at Sitka on the 13th of May, a few days of rest was taken. On the morning of leaving the barometer indicated stormy weather. No heed was taken of this. But a storm was brewing and three hours after leaving port it broke upon us with a vengeance. All the sailors were driven below, the mast was torn in shreeds, havec for a time held the reigns. As soon as possible the ship was steered back to Sitka, for repairs.
Sitka is a town of eight hundred inhabitants, six hundred being Indians, one hundred and fifty Russians, and fifty white men." The town and its surrounding country were well illustrated. "We soon reached Sagima Bay and stopped at Kleinkit, an Indian village, and home of the Yeketut tribe." Some of the views thrown upon the canvas at this time were of the typical Alaska dwellings and reminded one of a barn made use of in times past, in western Kansas with its big raw slabs of cotton wood boarding up the sides and roof. A shingled roof in Sitka is a luxury.
"The Yeketut tribe, as others, live on salmon, berries, seal oil, mussels and lobsters. They spend a great deal of their time making baskets which art they have cultivated to perfection. They cremate their dead." The picture of different kind of totems which each family has built high above the house top brought forth much applause. "This custom resembles very much the one which the English have, their code of arms. No individual in the Yeketut tribe is permitted to have any more wealth than any one other; so each year there is a "pot latch" held, at which meeting the surplus wealth of the fortunate one's is distributed among the less fortunate." The description of this very curious custom and the views were very interesting.
Pictures of the principal Indians,
Mason Jim, Shylook, alias Ward McAlister, as the speaker called him, were thrown upon the canvass.
A fall report of the lecture can't be given for want of space, but let it suffice to say that any one who heard the speaker got a fair knowledge of the country, the people and their mode of living; their habits, customs, traditions, nature and peculiarities. The description of the avalanche as it slid down the mountain side was certainly true to nature and made one feel that they were there looking on.
Mr. Funston spoke plain and not too rapid. His lecture was not only interesting but spicy. The speaker held his audience and when he finished, all felt that he had done himself proud. Fred, as he is called, is only twenty-three years old, but he is a chip off the old block when it comes to lecturing.
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