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Identifier: alaskaklondike00mcla (find matches)
Title: Alaska and the Klondike
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: McLain, John Scudder, b. 1853
Subjects: Alaska Klondike River Valley (Yukon) -- Gold discoveries
Publisher: New York : McClure, Phillips & co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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d wild berriesthey have added flour and tea and coffee and sugar andbacon. Their appliances and methods of cooking seemnot to be as well adapted to these articles as to theirnative foods; at all events, they do not seem to nourishthem well, either from lack of quantity or lack of intelli-gent preparation. I do not know just w^hy it is, but it isthe general verdict that the Boston mans food, to saynothing of the Boston mans drinks, has not been tothe natives advantage. When he was the sole occupantof the country he clothed himself in skins and was com-fortable in the long and sev^ere winters, but since the whiteman has come in such numbers he has begun to imitatehim in dress. He has discarded his furs and shivers andcontracts pneumonia and consumption in the white mansclothing, of which he gets only the poorest quality andnot enough of it. The ravages of pulmonary diseases h^vebeen heavy, and these disorders are so prevalent as toprevent white parents from allowing their children to go
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-82 ALASKA AND THE KLONDIKE to the same schools with the native children, even whenthere are no other schools a\ailable. Industry and forehandedness are lessons which they, incommon with other natives of America, have neverlearned, but they are more indolent and careless of thefuture from their disposition to do as the white man does.They pitch their tents in summer near the white manstowns, and hang around the streets, sometimes selling afew trinkets and often cheated out of the trifling sumsthey get for them through their propensity for gambling.They see the streets of the mining towns like Nome fullof idle men, and seeing that these men apparently livewithout work, seem to think they can and ought to doso, too. For these people the Government of the United Stateshas done practically nothing, while legislation conceivedin the interest of white men has pretty nearly destroyedtheir most productive source of revenue. The game lawshav^e operated disastrously to their declining trade in

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