Since these little villages of Kadiak, Leesnoi, Yealova, and Afognak embrace within their limits a large majority of the sixteen or seventeen hundred Creoles who are residents and natives of Alaska, it may be interesting if a sketch be given of the physical and mental characteristics which distinguish them broadly from the aboriginal types. The original Creole was the offspring of a Russian father and an Aleutian or Kaniag mother. He inherited the strong thickset frame and bushy, curly beard and brown hair of his father; in many cases his eyes were as blue (and his hair sometimes red), his skin as white, and his bearing just as good as was his Russian progenitors’. The aggressive energy, however, of the sire seldom was transmitted, the Creole being indolent and very pacific in disposition. If this original Creole, in his time and turn, married a full-blooded Aleutian or Kaniag girl, then the offspring would show a marked dominance of the mother’s race—indeed, the child would be as much like other Aleutian babies as they are related in looks among themselves; but if this original Creole marries an original Creole girl, sired like himself, then we have a type which cannot be distinguished at all from the full-blooded Slavonian, only much less demonstrative, alert, and pugnacious. Most of these old colonial citizens of this district of Kadiak are therefore full-blooded Russian quadroons and octoroons, and in every physical aspect are as much like Russians as if of pure origin. Those early Creoles, male and female, who mated, as they matured, with the native males and females, in so doing caused all their offspring, long ago, to revert to the savage types, and we cannot distinguish them to-day. [Illustration: CREOLES AND ALEUTES Pencil Portraits of typical Alaskan faces, selected from the Author’s Portfolio 1. Luka Mandriggan, an Aleute, 49 years of age 9. Philip Vollkov, a Creole, 50 ” ” 8. Matroona Vollkov, ” girl, 15 ” ” 10. Anoorka Meeseekin, ” ” 11 ” ” 7. Fevronia Eevanov, ” ” 9 ” ” 11. Deemietri Veatkin, ” 48 ” ” 6. Aggie Kooshing, ” boy, 18 ” ” 3. Ivan, an Aleute boy, 7 ” ” 5. Domian, ” ” 12 ” ” a. Paraskeeva, ” girl, 13 ” ” 4. Natalia, ” ” 12 ” ”