Word: sitka
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...village were placed under strict pledges to abstain from idleness and vice, and a model town soon grew up. Another proof of capabilities of the natives is the success of the schools established from the scanty appropriations of the United States, When the first school was opened in Sitka over one hundred boys appeared, eager to be educated, and within a month three hundred adults had also asked permission to attend. When winter came many of the pupils slept in the school room because they could not study in their dark buts. Soon a boarding school was established, which...
Photographs of Alaskan scenery were next exhibited in great abundance, including some of Sika and of the various mining camps. The coast is a range of semi-submerged mountains, and the whole country is "set up on end." The precipitation at Sitka is very great, often reaching 100 inches, and it often rains there 2 5 days in the year. This weather is most favorable to the formation of glaciers, and the rest of the lecture was devoted to one of the most noticeable-the great Muirglacier. This is one mile across and 408 feet high where it reaches...