CHAPTER XVII.

Schools in Alaska.—Natives Ambitious to learn.—Wild Flowers.—Native Grasses.—Boat Racing.—Avaricious Natives.— The Candle Fish.—Gold Mines Inland.—Chinese Gold-Diggers.— A Ledge of Garnets.—Belief in Omens.—More Schools required.—The Pestiferous Mosquito.—Mosquitoes and Bears.— Alaskan Fjords.—The Patterson Glacier 231