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Ten years of missionary work among the Indians at Skokomish, Washington Territory, 1874-1884

Eells, Myron, 1843-1907· 2 chapters· 25,378 words

Port Gamble saw-mills. Two hundred and eleven of them were out of the smoke when at home. I estimated that on an average they obtained seventy-two per cent. of their living from civilized food, the extremes being fifty and one hundred per cent.

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1. mill. I was not able to learn what they had earned at the Seabeck and

Port Gamble saw-mills. Two hundred and eleven of them were out of the smoke when at home. I estimated that on an average they obtained seventy-two per cent. of their living from...

2. Chapter V.; and, although once after that, on a Fourth of July, he was

drunk, yet he has steadily worked for the good of his tribe. He has had a noted name, for an Indian, as an enemy to drunkenness, and his fines and other punishments on his offen...