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No, he was much better. Brother Paul had been about to all the house-bound sick people, and given everybody medicine, and flour, and a terrible scolding. Oh yes, he was angrier than anybody had ever been before. Some natives from the school at Holy Cross were coming for him tomorrow, and they were all going down river and across the southern portage to the branch mission at Kuskoquim.
The discussion was interrupted to introduce the other new face, at the bottom of the table, to the Big Chimney men: "Resident Fazzer Roget of ze Kuskoquim mission." "That is the best man on snow-shoes in Central Alaska," said Father Richmond low to the Colonel, nodding at the Kuskoquim priest. "And he knows more of two of ze native dialects here zan anyone else," added the Father Superior.
The little incident said more for the richness of Minóok than all the General's blowing; they forgot that what was lost would amount to less than fifty cents. The fact that it was gold Minóok gold gave it a symbolic value not to be computed in coin. "How do you go?" asked the Colonel, as the two millionaires began putting on their things. "We cut across to Kuskoquim.
But the priest, without so much as a glance at the new-comer, proceeded to feed Kaviak out of the saucepan, blowing vigorously at each spoonful before administering. "He's pretty hungry," commented Mac. "Where'd you find him?" "In a little village up on the Kuskoquim. Kaviak's an Esquimaux from Norton Sound, aren't you, Kaviak?"
"How far?" asked the Boy. "About seven miles below the Russian mission, and a mile or so up the Kuskoquim Slough." "Wrecked there?" "Oh no. Gone into winter quarters." "In a slew?" for it was so Father Wills pronounced s-l-o-u-g-h. "Oh, that's what they call a blind river up in this country.
This place I'm going to, a little way up the Kuskoquim, out of danger when the ice breaks up, has been chosen for a new station by the N. A. T. and T. Company rival, you know, to the old-established Alaska Commercial, that inherited the Russian fur monopoly and controlled the seal and salmon trade so long.
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