Letter from S. Hall Young to John Muir, [1886] Feb 22.

• Main Author: Young, S. Hall
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1886
• Subjects: Environmentalist; naturalist; travel; conservation; national parks; John Muir; history; correspondence; letters; Glacier Bay; glacier; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1667; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/muir-correspondence/article/2666/viewcontent/muir05_0619_md_1.pdf

Wrangel Feb 22 (1886)Dear MuirYour good one just recd by way of Littea & not time to ans. Have mailed Dec & [far?] No. of Glacier. Enclosed 1st & [illegible] of Feb. no Don't be [illegible] my muse if ex[illegible] Will answer fully concerning book etc. Will ans by next [str. ?] at Portland as see [illegible]Am exceedingly lonesome widower.The "frame" in this sheet is that glacier bay near mouth of [Stickine?] as seen from top of Delta mountainKind regards to Mrs M S. Hall Young02458 History of Hoonah Mission.Written and set in type by Dora Davis.Hoonah is the nicest place in Alaska. There are nineteen houses. Only one hundred and nine people were at home last winter. The rest were at their limiting places during the whole year. They are very fond of their school. They come to school very regularly. Every sunday Mr. J. W. McFarland would go around and teach the old people from the Bible. He won't allow the wizards to perform on Sabbath. He would stop them, every time he caught them performing on Sabbath-day. They are improving so much, those people at Hoonah. They go away early in the Spring to their different places for hunting. We enjoyed our trip this past summer, carrying the gospel around t? different fisheries; first to the cod and halibut fishery, and then up to Barlett's Bay. We picked the nicest strawberries that I never saw before. There we saw the chief of that fishery. He was low down in bed with consumption. Last winter two persons were accused of witchcraft. They were tied up: the ropes were too tight on their hands so that they went through their flesh, and they were starved to death. All this was done for the sake of the chief. Blankets after blankets were given the wizards to heal him from all his sickness. He thought they would make Him we1l. But at the last he saw that they were not doing him any good. He wished for the missionaries. We talked to him from the Bible. He said he was sorry for his sins, but now he believed in God. He died; the next month in Sept. Also we went to the ...