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2 Fort Wrangle will present some what a different appearance when you bring your bride up this way. I have made too long
canoe trips since that of last fall In April and May, in company with Mr Lyons? (our present missionary at Sitka) I made the
circuit? of Prince of Wales Island I had a most delightful trip and returned home a happy integer . I made several improvements
upon the Chilkat trip, In the manner of getting up the expedition, just I had only one Capt ? and no chiefs, second I paid
for the trip, and not by the day, third the Indians provided their own illegible , as a consequence, though I visited seven
towns, many camps, remaining long enough at each to do illegible work, and though we had few good sailing winds we made the
trip of four hundred miles in two weeks, and two days. The finest part of this archipelago , as regards beauty? of the soft,
quiet, picturesque type, noble cedar forests, lovely green Islands, fertile 3 spots, and five Indians is Cordova Bay on
the south west of the Island. The Indian jobs? and houses entirely illegible all we saw north. We hope to have a missionary
established there, A good man has been appointed to Chilkat. Though not as fine a trip glacially speaking, it was a better
one aboriginally. My other canoe trip was from the British missions at Metlahkatlah? and Ft Simpson in that I was rash, I
undertook to bring Mrs Young and the baby, Miss Dunbar, seven of our Home girls, and two Indian wimen with the help of only
two Indian men. We went down in the Gsapfler? had a fine visit, got two canoes at Ft? S and were eleven days getting to? Ft
W I illegible the longest? canoe in which was the most precious and helpless part cargo, Imagine my spiritual suffering, to
have a lot of weak and heedless girls stop paddling just as the wind is driving you upon a rock. We nearly ran out of provision
and for the last two