Chapter 8 of the Story of Sitka by Clarence Leroy Andrews. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain, recording by Rita Boutros. Chapter 8. Sitka under United States Rule. Then came the day when the Russian was to withdraw from his colonies and the United States was to occupy them as Alaska, an area as broad as an empire equal in extent to Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark combined was to be handed over from the Imperial ruler of all the Russia's to the Republic of the United States. And Sitka, the capital of the colonies, was to be the scene of the actual transfer. The statesmanship of Secretary Seward, aided by the eloquence of Sumner, had secured for our country a domain one-sixth as large as the whole United States. October 18th, 1867, Alexei Pesturov, the commissioner of the Tsar, appeared in front of the Baranov Castle and beside him stood Lovl H. Russo, the commissioner for the United States who was to receive the territory. The Russian soldiery were drawn up along the terrace which ran around the Baranov Hill and next to them were the men of the United States infantry. The ensign of Russia was lowered, the flag of the United States raised to the accompaniment of the salutes from the batteries and of the guns of the ships in the harbor. The few words of the ceremony of transfer were spoken and Alaska became a possession of the United States. Most of the Russian residents went back to their native land as soon as they were able to do so, but some remained to cast their lot in the land that had so long been their home. Among those who remained are the Kashavarovs, the Kostromitinovs, the Bolshanins, the Shutsovs, and others, whose descendants now live in Alaska. The commanding officer of the American troops, General Jefferson C. Davis, made his headquarters in the building on the hill that had been so long the residents of the Russian officers. The American soldiers were quartered in the barracks of the Siberian battalion and the sentries of the United States walked the beats of the Russian guards. Sitka gradually adjusted itself to the new conditions, to the crowds of adventurers who thronged its streets seeking a profit in speculations in lands and furs. They were doomed to disappointment for the titles to lands were withheld and the fur trade was overdone, so most of the newly arrived drifted away as they came. Distinguished visitors came and were entertained in the old castle where the commandant dispensed hospitality. Lady Franklin, the widow of the famous Arctic explorer, was once a guest at the mansion on the Kikur and Secretary Seward was entertained there in 1869 when he visited the land he added to the possessions of the United States. While the military garrison were content with their conditions and were not troubled with the affairs of the world at large, the civil population wished for the law and authority of other communities and set themselves to remedy the omission of the government in far off Washington so far as was possible to do for there was no provision for an organization of civil government in the community. They organized a municipal association, drafted ordinances, elected councilmen collected revenue for improving the governor's walk, changed the name to Lincoln Street and in December opened a school after five years the civil population declined until the revenue was insufficient to maintain the expense. The organization was abandoned, with it passed the school and the first attempt at self-government closed. Then followed dark days for Sitka, military rules for the garrison and no law or protection for the people. Soldiers from the fort are said to have robbed the church of its ornaments tearing the covers from the richly bound Bible of the cathedral. The offenders were apprehended but there being no civil law all the punishment needed out was to be drummed out of the service and sent to the states on an army transport. The stolen property was hidden under the old hospital building and was discovered by some boys and nearly all was restored to the church. On New Year's Day, 1869, Kolcheka, a noted chief of the Chilkats who was visiting Sitka, was entertained by General Davis at the Castle on the Hill. The liquid refreshment served to him by the general raised his spirits and his pride of race. After it was over, he descended the long flight of stairs leading from the Commandant's quarters and strode across the parade ground with the dignity becoming to the hereditary chief of the Chilkats, the proudest Kwan of the Tlingits. For some reason, he crossed the part reserved for officers, was challenged by the sentry and not heeding when he reached the stockade gate was kicked by the sentry's station there. He was furious. Me, Kolcheka, chief of the Chilkats, kicked. He turned in a rage, seized the musket of the sentry, wrenched it from his hands, then carried it to his house in the ranch. The guard was turned out for his arrest and a skirmish ensued in which the guard was worsted and retreated to the barracks. The Sitkas were neutral. The Chilkats were too few in number to fight the troops, so next day Kolcheka surrendered, was kept in the guardhouse for a few days and then released. Meantime, orders that no Indians be permitted to leave the ranch were issued which were revoked upon Kolcheka's surrender. Through some mistake in revoking the orders, the sentries were not notified. A canoe load of Indians left the ranch to get wood. The sentries fired on the canoe and killed two of the occupants, a Chilkat and a Kake. It was an unfortunate mistake. Those shots rang from Lynn Canal to Kuyu Island and the echoes vibrated for more than twenty years. By listening intently one might yet hear the vibrations. Two white men died and three Indian villages burned directly as a result, but it happened in places distant from Sitka and, as they say, it is another story. On a June day of 1877, the troops of the United States Army embarked on a ship for the states and sailed away from Sitka. The buildings and property were left in charge of the collector of customs, who, with the postmaster, constituted the only officials in the territory. The presence of the military had guaranteed safety from attack by the Indians to the people of the town and the officers had been a pleasant addition to the social life. With their departure both were lost. The animosity of the Tlingits had been kindled by many wrongs some real and others fancied. They saw in the new order of things an opportunity to recompense themselves for past grievances. All the old stories of the killing of their countrymen by the troops, the burning of old Kake and other villages, the loss of five kiksities in the schooner San Diego in Bering Sea and other tales were rehearsed and were used to stir the lust for vengeance. The kiksities, under the leadership of Catlion, openly advocated sacking the town, killing the men and making slaves of the women. The government does not care for the country. They have abandoned it. It belongs to us anyway. Why not take the town and do as we wish with it, said Catlion. The Kokwantans under Anahut, their chief, opposed the outrage. For months there was danger of an outbreak. Insult after insult was placed upon the citizens. The stockade was cut down and carried away by the Indians. Every male inhabitant was armed and expecting a call to battle at any time. A man was killed at the hot springs by a kiksity. The murderer was arrested through the assistance of the Kokwantans under Anahuts. The kiksities assembled to rescue the criminal, but the citizens of the town rallied for defense. The Kokwantans joined them and the murderer was safely placed on board the steamer, California, and taken to Portland for trial, where he was afterward hanged. On the same boat went an appeal for assistance directed to the United States government, but it fell on deaf ears. Another petition was sent to Victoria, B.C., and was heeded. Captain A. Holmes, a court of H.M.S. Osprey, at once set out for Sitka, arrived on March 1st, 1879, anchored opposite the ranch, and trained his guns for immediate use. The danger was averted. Captain A.C. remained until the arrival of the USS Alaska on April 3rd, then departed for Esquimol with the blessings of the grateful people of Sitka. On June 14th into the harbor came the USS Jamestown. Her commander, Captain L.A. Beardsley, assumed control of affairs in the community and administered them in a manner which brought credit on his name. He found everything at the lowest ebb. Every woman and child who could leave had gone to escape the danger of Indian massacre. Witchcraft prevailed among the natives and anarchy among the whites. He took a census upon his arrival and the result was 325 people exclusive of the Creole population. He appointed an Indian police, established more sanitary conditions in the ranch, numbered the houses, and compelled the attendance of the Indian children at the Mission School. A school was opened in the old Russian barracks building on April 17th, 1878 by Reverend John G. Brady and Miss Fanny E. Kellogg of the Presbyterian Mission, which was later followed by the present Sheldon Jackson Mission School. George Kostromitinov, afterward known as Father Sergius, was the interpreter. The opening of the school was a great event for Sitka and nearly everyone in the town attended. Anahoot, the friendly Coquantan War chief, made a speech. Mr. Cohen, the brewer, hunted up another interpreter to assist. Hems were sung and the events were auspicious. The Indians stole in one at a time, some with their faces blackened, all in blankets, but they squatted by the wall and listened attentively. The school was continued until December when it was given up, but in the spring of 1880, Miss Olinda Austin from New York City reopened it on April 5th in one of the rooms of the guardhouse with an attendance of 103 children. The school, thus established, was the beginning of the present Sheldon Jackson Training School. The support of the naval officers at the station was such that the missionary teacher was moved to say, it is not often that the government sends out a missionary, but they have sent in this young commander and his lieutenant, Mr. F. M. Simmons, in referring to Captain Glass, who succeeded Captain Breardsley. Some form of local government giving the residents a right to regulate their civil affairs was favored by the commander, who had not even a code under which to act. A meeting was called, ordinances were drafted, a magistrate and councilman elected for a town government, but all were not agreed upon these acts and opposition arose against it from the very inception of the movement. One of the traders of the town, Kaplan, said, Decaptain may go too, with his town government, I'll pay no taxes. And from Silver Bay where he was mining, George E. Pilts sent in a protest against the proceeding. The dealers who traded molasses to the Indians, from which the villainous liquor called Hoochinu, or Hooch, was distilled, objected to the ordinances restricting the trade. Finally, an English miner named Roy was shot by his partner, Scotty, and the inability of the self-made government to try the offender brought a crisis. The next day a notice appeared stating the organization had been dissolved and the second attempt at self-government by the people in Alaska passed into oblivion. Scotty was sent to Oregon for a trial and was discharged because of lack of a law to punish a man for assault with a dangerous weapon in Alaska. But the dawn of a better day was at hand. Alaska's darkest hours were passed and mourning was breaking. The rule of the Navy Department continued until 1884. Then, although the warships still remained in Alaskan waters by act of Congress of May 17th, a form of civil government was granted and the official capital was placed at Sitka. The terror of the Indian outbreaks was passed. Schools were in reach for the same act provided for the establishment of a system of public education and the Code of Oregon was adopted as the law of the land. Then some of the life of the former years returned to the beautiful village by the sea. There were pleasant parties among the residents. The governor held receptions. The officers of the warships added to the social life. Many a gay ball was celebrated on the top floor of the courthouse and for more than twenty years it was the capital of Alaska. With the influx of the Americans prospecting began for in the vast wild mountains of Baranov and Shikugov Islands there is a wealth of minerals stored in the ledges. The Russians had attempted to find the mineral of the mountains and in 1848 a Mr. Doroshin, a mining engineer had been sent out from St. Petersburg to search for mineral wealth in the colonies. He was not successful enough to make it of profit to them although he found coal on Cook Inlet, gold on the Kenai Peninsula, earth promising to bear diamonds near Kutsnahul and copper was known to be on the Maidnutsky or Copper River. Discharged soldiers of the garrison were the first to take to the hills with pick and shovel. Nicholas Haley, an old time prospector of Arizona who came with the troops to Sitka, was one of the most energetic and daring of these. Year after year with pick and shovel, with rifle and blankets Nicholas attacked the rugged mountains. Rich specimens were brought in and yielded enough when braided in a mortar to keep him in a grub steak. But it takes capital to develop a hard rock mine and capital was wary. So Nicholas toiled on year after year, keeping up his assessments and living on hopes until at last he passed over the great divide to a better diggings. Others tried it. In 1878 a mining company was organized at Sitka but there was not yet a law under which a claim could be legally taken. Ledges were found, small mills were placed on the ground at the Stuart Mine the Lucky Chance and elsewhere. And later great fakes were promoted at the Pand Basin and elsewhere. But it was years after that when two Indian boys hunting on Sitka Gulf Island lay down to drink at a stream and behold in the shimmering water was white rock with yellow glittering particles dancing in the clear stream. With the fear it was but fool's gold they took specimens and marked the place where they were found. When they reached Sitka they submitted these samples to Judge DeGroff and to Professor Kelly of the Sheldon Jackson School. It was pronounced to be gold, pure shining yellow gold and richer than the most Sanguine had hoped for. After much labor and many disappointments the ledge was located from which the float came and today that mine, the Sitka Gulf it is called is known as the richest and best paying mine in the United States in proportion to the money invested and more than one fortune has been taken out of the tunnels in the mountain. Off the shores of the continent reaching far off to the westward almost to the shores of Asia are vast fishing grounds perhaps the greatest in the world. A great submarine plateau stretches along shore past the Aleutian Islands and into Bering Sea. There are estimated to be 40,000 square miles of cod and halibut banks that are known to the surveys. The fisheries of Gloucester and Cape Cod fade into insignificance and the famous Newfoundland banks are but small in comparison. Sitka goes back the farthest in historic memory of any city of the northwest. When Lewis and Clark came to the mouth of the Columbia River she was looking out over the Pacific from her stockaded walls and Resonoff was sailing to search for locations for new colonies. When Astoria was founded she was placing her outpost on the Russian River in California. Before San Francisco was a city she sent her bidarkas to take the sea otter from under the very noses of the Padres in their missions. Here the civilization of the east met the progress of the west the Orient and the Occident met here and met without bloodshed. Sitka with her wealth of fisheries in the waters at her doors with her wealth of mineral in the ledges at her back with the wealth of forest on the mountain slopes around her is in the same latitude as Edinburgh, Scotland. The time is coming when she will have population and wealth beauty she already has what more is wanted for the happiness of her people only energy, perseverance and thrift and those will be forthcoming. End of Chapter 8 Chapter 9 of the story of Sitka by Clarence Leroy Andrews this LibriVox recording is in the public domain recording by Rita Butros Chapter 9 What to See Approaching Sitka by the usual steamer route from the north at a distance of six miles the site of old Sitka is passed it lies to the left of the steamer track in a small bay and is marked by a native house which is visible from the ship from near this place looking to the westward the first site of Mount Etchcom is to be had between the islands on approaching the town the ship goes through a narrow channel between Japansky Island at the right and the town site at the left near the middle of the channel a rock is marked by a buoy and along the shore is the native village or ranch with a sloping beach upon which in former days the canoes were drawn up the paths by which they were brought from the water may be seen marked by the rocks being thrown to each side from the track on Japansky Island is the U.S. Naval Colling Station and the U.S. Wireless Telegraph the magnetic observatory of the Russians was situated there the name means Japan Island and is given because Resanov designated it as the place to keep captive Japanese whom he expected to capture through his expedition against the lower Curell Islands in 1806 the dock at which the ship lands is in the same location as the one used by the Russians but it has been extended to deeper water the timbers of the old hulk once used by the Russians as a landing stage may still be seen in the water at low tide on the dock was the landing warehouse of the Russians a log structure with a passage through the center it was burned in 1916 leaving the wharf and going eastward along Lincoln Street at the side are the booths or tents of the native merchants kept by the women from the village a veritable arcade of little markets and each of the vendors is as interested as though she occupied his seat on the famous Rialto Bridge to sell the wares of ancient Venice the picturesque dark-skinned Tlingit women sit at the doors of their little tents hour after hour offering the strangely carved totems the beautiful baskets of spruce roots woven in mystic designs the beaded moccasins etc products of their industry during the long winter when the tourist boats do not call at the Sitka wharves passing up the street to the east from the landing at the right is the US cable office occupying the site of the old Russian fur warehouse next is the three-story building used for courthouse and jail formerly the Russian barracks where the Siberian battalion was quartered this is one of the most prominent of the old buildings which remain in front of this is the stairway leading to the top of the hill on which is situated the building of the agricultural department on the site of the former residents of the chief manager of the Russian-American company around this hill where the batteries of the Russians commanding the Kolosh village and the harbor the former building was often called the governor's mansion or the Baranov castle was built about 1837 and was destroyed by fire in 1894 the hill commands a fine view of the harbor and the surrounding islands the present structure is the headquarters of the Alaska division of the agricultural department opposite the stairway to the hill is the way leading to the ranch the open square was the former parade ground of the army and later of the US Marines from the man of war which was stationed there east of the old barracks building is the former counting house of the company now occupied as the US post office and during the time when Sitka was the capital of the territory it was used by the United States for a customs office and by the governor as an office going east on Lincoln Street the next large building at the right was the old bakery and shops of the company later commonly known as the Sitka trading company building having been occupied by that company for many years beyond this on the same side of the street at a short distance is a small building standing back from the walk surmounted by a Greek cross which marks the site of the first church built in Sitka in 1817 next to this lot is the one formerly occupied by the Lutheran church built in the time of Edelund and in which the first church service was held by Chaplain Rainier of the US Army after the American occupation across the street is the Cathedral of Saint Michael the headquarters of the Greek Orthodox Church in Alaska in the territory are claimed to be 10,000 communicants of that faith and from Sitka the management of affairs is conducted the church is in the form of a cross and is surmounted by the Greek cross the interior is richly decorated after the usual custom of the Russian churches candlesticks of massive design stand at either side of the doors of the inner sanctuary the building with its dome is distinctive and is a good example of Russian church architecture continuing east along Lincoln Street a short distance beyond the cathedral a vacant space on the right marks the spot formerly occupied by the clubhouse built by Edelund for a home for the clerks navigators and other employees of the company opposite it was situated the foundry and machine shops while a little farther to the east stood the sawmills at the mouth of the outlet to Swan Lake along this stream was the eastern boundary of the stockade of the Russian fort with a blockade near the point of the lower end of the lake east of this stockade were the kitchen gardens but all traces of them have long since vanished continuing along the street following the shore the bishop's house is passed on the left where the Russian school is taught and a short distance beyond is the house of the Episcopal Bishop of the diocese Reverend Bishop P. T. Rowe still farther to the east is the Sheldon Jackson School the Presbyterian Mission School consisting of a group of buildings the first of which was completed in 1880 under the superintendents of Reverend Alonzo Austin and others have been added from time to time until the present fine establishment has resulted an octagonal structure shelters the Sheldon Jackson Museum a fine collection of native work of many kinds gathered from all parts of Alaska by the first superintendent of native schools for the territory a small paper is published by the mission the Verstovian and is printed by the native students of the institution opposite the mission at the edge of the curving beach a large flat-topped rock lies at the side of the way called the Blarney Stone on this it is said that Baranov often sat during the last year of his residence here and looked out through the vistas between the islands to the broad Pacific what were the thoughts of the brave strong strange old man as he sat here will never be known but it is sure that there was much of sadness for him in those days beyond the mission is the famous Indian River Road a continuation of the governor's walk of the Russians and often called the Lovers Lane it winds along the shore of the sea through the park with here and there an opening in the forest where there are splendid examples of high-duck carvings in the tall totems placed in well-chosen spots these totem poles were taken to the St. Louis Fair in 1904 as a part of the Alaska exhibit and afterward returned to this park one of the most interesting is the house totem of Chief Sonehat of Kasan accompanied by the four supporting columns of the ancient tribal house from the rustic bridge on the Indian River there are enticing paths leading along the stream and toward Mount Verstovia which towers above the bay to the height of 3216 feet along the river known as the Kolosh Rayika by the Russians the winding paths are bordered with huge Sitka spruces and giant cedars with the space thickly filled with a dense growth of shrubbery among which is prominent the Devil's Club Panak's Horridus with its beautifully palmated leaves and its cruel spines concealed underneath this shrub was formerly used by the natives as an instrument of torture in their witchcraft in the depths of the forest the earth is covered with a carpet of ferns and mosses and the trunks of fallen trees of former years may be seen with other trees of from two to three feet in diameter growing on their prostrate bodies returning towards the town at the mission the Davis Road turns toward the north it was built by the army during their occupation in the process of their securing wood from the forest and named for general Jeff C. Davis the commander of the post following it the military cemetery is reached at the distance of about three eighths of a mile here are some interesting monuments among them being that of Governor Morris a descendant of the famous financier of the revolution a stone marks the resting place of a lieutenant of the U.S. Army around whose memory lingers stories of a duel with a brother officer in a solitary spot along Indian River over a Russian beauty of Sitka turning aside from Lincoln Street at the mission or at the street next westward a walk of a quarter of a mile leads to the experiment farm of the agricultural department of the United States there may be seen many products including apples and strawberries of an excellent quality of the latter is a variety originated by Professor George Sun through hybridizing the cultivated berries with the wild native berry which grows luxuriously at many places in Alaska on reaching the cathedral a street turns northward along which one finds at the right on the little knoll in the town among the scattered spruce trees the spot where formally stood the tea houses of the Russians they were in the center of the public gardens which covered the knoll and were approached by beautifully bordered walks farther along on the left of the walk is the remaining Russian blockhouse the last of three which formally stood on the line of the stockade that protected the town from the Kolosh a little back of the blockhouse is the grave of the Princess Maksutov marked with a marble slab lying on the raised mount above her resting place at the end of the walk is the modern Russian cemetery with its forest of Greek crosses and in this center at the highest point is a platform from which is had an excellent view of the harbor, islands, Mount Edgecom and of the lake and town returning as far as the site of the tea gardens then going westward toward the water at the right is an enclosure in which there is a small building marking the site of the Koloshian church or the church of the resurrection as it is called in the church records this was the building occupied by the natives in 1855 when they made an attack upon the town it was on the line of the stockade which formally ran from the waterfront at the end of the ranch east to the lake then back to the water at the sawmill on the line of the stockade were three blockhouses the church being between the first and second of these surrounding the site of the church are a number of graves and among them are some interesting monuments dating back to the Russian days but this is the older of the two cemeteries going down to the entrance to the native town or ranch there is a choice of two streets one in front of the houses along the waterfront the other at the rear the one at the front is preferable the houses are built of lumber and in general are constructed by the native workmen who have been instructed at the mission school at which there is an excellent manual training department the great tribal houses of former days have long since disappeared the older houses were named by the natives much as were the inns of old England the Gooch Hate or Wolf House the Tan Hate or Sea Lion House the Kaas Hate or Cow House and others named for different animals the Kaas Hate was named from the head of a cow being brought there from a wreck off the coast in which the animal was drowned formerly there were many canoes along the waterfront as many as 150 at a time being often seen but now there are places occupied by gas boats generally built by the owners and the engines installed by them the loss in the picturesque was partly compensated by the gain in utility but the native canoe was a wonder of marine architecture cut from a single log and shaped with fire and adds into elegant lines an occasional specimen is sometimes yet to be seen on the beach or carefully covered from the weather in some sheltered and secluded cove there were no great house totem poles in front of the houses but there are at Rangel, Kaasan and elsewhere there were some mortuary columns near the grave houses which formally stood on the ridge back of the village but these have long been covered by the dense undergrowth which sprang up in recent years in this village have lived some interesting and strong characters Anahoot and Catlian both figured boldly in the history of the town and Sitka Jack was noted for his great potlatch held in 1877 when he gave a housewarming at which he presented to his visitors over 500 blankets not to mention the Hoochinu and whiskey which flowed liberally for all he beggared himself by the feast but his reputation was established above reproach for the rest of life Princess Tom was another celebrity whose fame was founded on her wealth which was estimated at $10,000 and which was acquired by skill in basket making and shrewdness in dealing in native manufacturers on which she was a connoisseur going out to the villages in her long canoe to gather the stock of baskets, bracelets, carved dishes, masks, dance hats, etc. which she disposed of to advantage upon her return to Sitka Chief Planteck was one of the prominent citizens and frequently might have been seen on the street in his frock coat, tall hat, with cane and kid gloves cutting quite a dash His English vocabulary was very limited and he was accustomed for many years to fly the Russian flag over his canoe when he went out to a neighboring village for a potlatch Some of the silversmiths were skilled workmen Sitka Jack and Kuska and Haida Jake all fashioned bracelets, spoons and other articles carved with totemic designs of delicate beauty and line of proportion made from silver coins which they melted down Some of the shamans of the olden time acquired great influence and made life miserable for their fellow citizens by the practice of witchcraft One of the most obnoxious of these called Skandu was captured and his shock of matted hair which like that of Samson was supposed to be the seat of his power was shorn by the commander of the USS Pinta and in addition he was thoroughly scrubbed with soap and brush perhaps for the first time in his existence Even to this day there are instances of the weird belief in the villages at Hutsnahu or at Klukwan Not many years ago an Indian girl was rescued by the whites from a damp hole under a house where she had been confined to die of cold and starvation by the order of the shaman or echt as the Tlingit calls him Among the island and the inlet dented shores surrounding the town are many interesting places including an opportunity for delightful excursions The most desirable of these are Mount Edgecombe 3467 feet Taking a launch from Sitka the trip may be made to Krabbe or to the landing behind the island of St. Lazaria on which is a populous bird rookery and the ascent of the mountain is possible to be made in a day Perhaps better that two days be taken to the trip however The first to go to the top was Lysiansky in 1804 From the summit of the mountain an unusually beautiful panorama is to be had of island studded bay and mountain ridges capped with glaciers on one side while on the other spreads the expanse of the broad Pacific Old Sitka and Katliansky Bay by launch the site of the Russian settlement of 1799 to 1802 may be reached and from that point a continuation of the excursion may be made to the head of Neskoshansky Bay where the meadows are situated from which the Russians procured their provender for the cattle kept at the post In the streams entering the bay may be seen during the season of the salmon run the strange spectacle of the brown bears in the role of fishermen scooping salmon from the waters with their paws if good fortune attend this journey may be made in a day Silver Bay a veritable Norwegian fjord transplanted to Alaska with picturesque waterfalls plunging into its waters deep glacial valleys entering at right angles with Yosemite-like cliffs bordering them the Scottish bluebells clinging to the dripping rocks which beatle overhead Calampi's slide around which hangs a tail the Stuart mine, etc. about 10 miles to the head of the bay where a fine waterfall plunges from the mountainside the Redoubt and the Globoko Lake southwest from Sitka about 10 miles was the location of the fishery of the Russians from which for more than 60 years they drew their stores of Krasnia-Ruiba the Red Salmon which provided so important a part of their subsistence here in the rocky wall which divided Globoko or deep lake from the sea and over which the outlet flowed channels were blasted forming reservoirs and in these channels were placed zappours or fences which made traps into which the salmon swam and lay in the clear cold pools until they were removed for use here also was one of the Russian flowering mills where they ground the wheat brought from California or from the farms of the Hudson's Bay Company at Nisqually or on the Columbia the Sitka Hot Springs about 4 miles farther to the southwest than the Redoubt is situated the Sitka Hot Springs possessing valuable medicinal qualities and used for more than a century as a health resort here Dr. Goddard has established a sanitarium in the midst of a veritable nature lover's paradise the forest behind and the island studded sea in front with game in the deep woods and fish in the sea all to be had for the taking many other interesting and beautiful places may be visited Lysiansky Bay, Deep Bay, Herring Bay with the gorge of Sawmill Creek and the chain of lakes, Blue Lake and others lying adjacent are among the important ones Mount Verstovia the ascent of this mountain comprises one of the most interesting excursions about the town the trail leaves the shore of Jamestown Bay at the point where the trough of the watering place of the Jamestown came to the beach this place may be reached by boat or on foot through the park by the mouth of Indian River the ascent should be under the guidance of one familiar with the route for it is not plainly marked and none but an experienced woodsman can find the way alone it leads through a forest the first 800 or 1000 feet through dense undergrowth under the trees the mosses and ferns forming a veritable carpet above that the woods are more open at about 2500 feet the forest ceases it is called Coster's Trail the first eminence or shoulder of the mountain is near the timber line and is often spoken of as the mountain of the cross while above it towers the arrowhead or the summit of Verstovia otherwise called at times pop-off mountain or the ponds to a height of 3216 feet nearly a Russian Verst and from this it derives its name from the top an expanse of island-studded waters stretched toward the sea eastward crest after crest of glacier-capped peaks rise for a hundred miles northward the lofty summits of Mount Krillon and Mount Fairweather may be seen at an elevation of over 15,000 feet equal in height to the highest alp of Switzerland around the base of the arrowhead in July and August are found a myriad of wild flowers carpeting the earth violets, daisies, cyclamen and a multitude of others these are the nearer points which may be visited but more extended journeys full of new and varied interest to surgious narrows and peril straits or to the place of islands and the Chickagof mine to the northward and to Redfish Bay to the southward may be made End of Chapter 9 End of The Story of Sitka by Clarence Leroy Andrews This has been a LibriVox recording


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It will be attacked in every possible way If you don't think Bitcoin is going to be attacked you've misunderstood what this is about You don't go and poke a 20 trillion dollar industry and go hey, we're gonna disrupt you and and Then wait for it to roll over right This is offensive to a lot of governments and a lot of very very rich institutions And there are a lot of people who don't want to see Bitcoin succeed because it's decentralized and they're going to attack every aspect of it Every aspect of Bitcoin will be attacked So if a fork happens we get to learn what happens when a fork attack occurs and We learn how to defend against fork attacks Make no mistake Anybody who walks into this thinking that a fork will be unopposed is Going to very quickly discover that this will be a battle on all fronts Day one we've achieved 51 percent. We are now going to fork Bitcoin Kind of seems like hey shipping date is here Our work is done.  They're going to attack each other with denial of service attacks They're going to attack each other with hash rate. They're going to attack each other publicly privately Anonymously and not in every possible way and immediately every bug in the software We'll get poked and then poked again And if you try to fix it you'd better write that code well because if you put another bug in that's gonna get poked, too And then it becomes a battle about who has the best software development team And how quickly they can maintain that code and keep up time because that race is only seven blocks wide I don't think some of the people who are threatening to do a hard fork at 51 percent Have thought clearly about the implications of what happens immediately afterwards This is not going to be an easy game It's going to actually allow Bitcoin to test all the possible attack scenarios on Nodes on networks on relay networks on hashing transaction malleability replay transactions and everything else What will come out of that? Probably a Bitcoin that's worth a lot less or In my view a technology that's worth a lot more because it's battle hardened When it comes out of that it will have survived its first fork attack And we will know a lot more about what happens in highly contentious fork environments Ethereum taught us a lot But it didn't teach us much about a highly contentious fork The fork was initiated by the main development team which had more than 80 percent of the hash rate on their side The other thing to remember and I think this is important There's a lot of people who say if Bitcoin stumbles it's going to be overtaken by one of these other currencies It's very important to not mistake smooth sailing for good sailors Right in order to have scaling problems You first need to have scale in order to have governance problems you need to have a controversy to govern over right and Everything's hunky-dory kumbaya Until you have twenty billion dollars on the table and then the long knives start getting sharpened Since this is March we can use a reference beware the ides of March Right, and you can then Say oh, it's not what it looked like It's not what it looked like, you know don't pay attention to the stabbing Really pay attention to the fact that we all came together to stab together That's the Roman Senate quote The point here is that What's happening in Bitcoin now? isn't unique to Bitcoin if One of the other currencies gets to this scale and has to handle this many transaction They have a scaling problem which they're going to have to resolve there will be differences of opinion as to how to resolve that Some approaches will lead to massive centralization and a takeover by miners Some approaches will lead to failures in architecture and software these problems will repeat for every other currency These are the rights of passage you first have to grow up to face them right and so the big advantage that Many of the other blockchains and currencies have is they can look at Bitcoin watch what happens and learn these mistakes cheaply So that they don't have to repeat them expensively Now how many of the blockchains are actually doing that not many Because for the most part they're too busy going we're the best we're gonna win next right and not paying attention to the fact That these exact same problems are going to exist in their own blockchains. There are no easy answers There are lots of very delicate design trade-offs in how you deploy a trust where And Bitcoin is paving new ground. It's carving a new path. No one has gone here before Pay attention. We have a lot to learn. This is a fantastic experiment, but it's not easy. It looks easy back there I like to remind people who was here when Bitcoin was in 2013 anyone here who used Bitcoin in 2013 Yes, a few people. Okay, how much was the average fee? zero Right, how many blocks were full? Zero how big was the block size problem? Zero how much of a governance problem did we have or danger of a contentious hard fork?  What changed? What changed was Now there's 20 billion dollars at stake and the game gets serious, right? So it's easy to think that it will always be smooth sailing for the other cryptocurrency because they got everything right That's not gonna be the case You


Welcome back. Time to look at the front pages of the daily newspapers this morning and look at the headlines. Of course, with analysis, we have Chris Kenley Wando, a weekly commentator on the newspaper headlines. He's a chartered mediator and consulator. Chris Wando, good morning to you. Good morning. Thanks for having me this morning. Yes.  Because I remember last week when you were here, you predicted that the cues that you were experiencing in Abuja will be popping up in Lagos in a moment from then and lead the cues all around Lagos state? Yes. I'm a prophet of doom and a prophet of reality. And I told you last week when I spoke out that definitely in the next few days, if not in the summer, that definitely Lagos is in place. The same reality that is happening now. And that seems to be true now. So here we are. Nobody seems to be listening. Nobody seems not to be doing anything about this. All right. We'll leave it at that because we have analysis and discussion on this later in the program. But on the front page of the nation newspaper, we have these headlines, a big one there. Petrol marketers increase, pump price amid scarcity. The rider to that, a motorist queue for product in Lagos, Abuja others. Federal government too. Liberalized diesel. Aviation fuel importation says silver. Government elect or government elect disputes, equity vote buying claim. Trend worrisome says UK envoy. Envoy rather. And excited to have received Oye Banji. Interesting. Abdul Salami stable in UK says presidency. That's the good news. 50 Kaduna train captive sick dying.  Negotiator worried. Sleeves a churn in my tummy to read that headline. Headline rather. Attack on churches. Bandit seek 100 millionaire ransom. Law and contested scenario primary says APC chair inducement or yetola seeks probe of a delegate. So some of the stories on the front page of the nation newspaper voter registration court restrained Zainik and kidnapped suspect held in AKT. Trying times. Over to the leadership with these headlines. A big one there. The kicker says 85 days after Kaduna train attack. 50 remaining hostages threatened by snakes. Scorpions nine feared dead. Lord have mercy. And the riders to that headline. We're working on rescuing them FG. Victims families lament neglect. Worn against a train resumption. Attackers of Kaduna churches demand 100 millionaire ransom. Cut off male victims ear. District head kidnapped in plateau. Worse energy crisis looms over global supply shortfall. Cues return as Ipman shut stations. Abdu Salaam hospitalised in London discharged. Court stops Aenec from closing voter registration. The government elect denies involvement in vote buying. These are headlines on the front page of the leadership. The daily impendent has the following headlines. Private sector growth sluggish as energy cost impacts. Coys companies it says diesel price may hit 101,000 Naira per litre in days, manufacturers. Court restrained Zainik from ending voter registration in June 30, $13 billion transfer hour gas pipeline opportunity to tap into European markets. Minister. Fuel queues spread to Lagos. Aenec disagrees with the Kiti governor elect over vote buying. Privatisation of past sector a complete failure. NLC says Nigerians paying heavily for megawatts of darkness. Abdu Salaam me out of London hospital. That's good to hear. Revenue generation falters as debt service increases by 109% and 17,647 drug offender offenders 10 barons arrested 2,369 jailed in 7 months. And finally I'll be able to make you through the paper headlines without fainting. These are the ones on the front page of the punch. Presidential poll interim running mates Risky ex Aenec chief wants APCLP. Placeholder parties invention it has no place in the constitution says Sands and Aenec. Nobody gave me any condition but I'll step down for new running mate Masari. And it says presidential candidates may lose tickets over unqualified deputies state lawyers. Presidential poll interim running mates Risky ex Aenec chief wants APCLP. Placeholder parties invention it has no place in the constitution says Sands and Aenec. Nobody gave me any condition but I'll step down for new running mate Masari. And finally I'll be able to make you through the paper headlines without fainting. Presidential poll interim running mates Risky ex Aenec chief wants APCLP. Placeholder parties invention it has no place in the constitution says Sands and Aenec. Analysts call for state police job creation. Court stops Aenec from ending voter registration June 30. Nigerian Airlines others lose $700 million from 2022. Nigeria rally support for $13 billion Trans-Saharan gas pipeline. Scarcity hits Lagos Abuja fuel cells for 180 naira per liter as NNPC cuts supplies. Bus driver kills and dumps colleagues corpse at Lagos Park. Shooting police silent as traumatized woman slams burner boy club. Sexual misconduct OAU, Unia Abuja dismisses for profits is 14 others. Terrorist amount 100 million Naira ransom for abducted Kaduna worshippers. Osina chief's mother in court seeks justice for daughter and federal commission guards. Brutalized blind job seekers. Several hospitalized. Chris Keenewando I have never had a day like today on national international television where I'm panting to conclude or finish a look at the headlines. It's been stressful for me reading these headlines. I'll come back to you Chris. What are your thoughts on the nature of the stories we've seen today and what it says about the state of Nigeria? It's been really stressful, a grueling for me to go through all these. I'm really feeling my tummy turn. Over to you Chris Keenewando. Chris Keenewando Well, it may be traumatic for you, if it to me. For me it's not because this is where we find ourselves and this is our way. Since I've been prominent in this country and this getting worse and worse today, this we are predictable. It's not like something just fell on our lads. Since it's coming over the months, so many Nigerians, journalists, analysts, name them have predicted this and we've said that it can only get worse. The only people that seem to not understand what is going on is the government, especially the federal government. And the daily business they continue to tell us that things are better, things are getting better. We are far better now than we were in 2015. The securities, they are in control of security and at the point they even told us that this was just the last key of a dying horse or camel or whatever they call it. But they refused to face reality. Now they are already campaigning again for 2033 and asking us to command for them with all policies and whatever gesture they can put together to make us good for them. So someone like me have developed a kind of shock as well. Nothing surprises me as soon as Nigeria is concerned again. I say this most often and often I open that to me. Nigeria is just like that program, Charlie boy shoe that used to run on NTA and major stations in those cities on Charlie boy shoe, anything can happen. And Nigeria, don't be surprised that they say in my place that in Igbo land they say Igbo and all. Every other morning is a new story. This is what is up in Nigeria, in the state of Nigeria. And we don't seem to have a savior, we don't seem to have anybody that can be able to rescue us from the generation that will find themselves. When the Israelites find themselves in the streets of the crowd of God and God came to their rescue and let them out of Egypt until they go to Kerala. But it's not even listening to us.  But personally it's just as if my own personal opinion is just like God seems to have done these years and asked us to be able to do that. People that get things done, don't just work on God. Japanese don't work on God. Chinese don't work on God. Americans they believe in God, but they do the right thing. The Europeans do the right thing. They don't just work. Even in Rome, Vatican, we have to say you simply say the Christians, they tend to get things right. In Saudi Arabia, one of the most developed countries in the world that is a quarter of Islam, you can see how things work and how accurate and how beautiful everything seems. I don't know what has been our problem. I've always asked Western, the problem of Nigeria, is it that of leadership or that of Kulawashi? And to be able to answer that question, both you will continue to find answers to where we are. It's rather unfortunate that that is the reality. I mean, it's the federal government and in this case the president on whose shoulder a lot of these things rest. Do you think he's aware of the situation? For instance, talk about Fios Kasti, he started on the streets of Abuja. He's his backyard. You know, having insecurity and the likes. It doesn't seem like there's anything wrong in the country. Look at the pictures coming out of Asorok, Vila with Oye Banji and the current Achilles State governor, based in the president, of course, they have photo ops. When they have photo ops and everybody's smiling, someone put up something on Twitter. You had the day saying, you know, sometimes even when, it doesn't know why, even when things are so bad in the country. At different times, or they are times of tragedy, when you see pictures coming from the presidential Vila, the politicians are together. They're always smiling and clasping hands. You know, is it a day on our way of the situation in the country, or there's something they know that we don't know? Do you think the federal government, the president in particular, Buhari is aware of what's happening or is even worried or interested in making things better? Because we're seeing smiles and laughs in the pictures coming from the presidential Vila. I would like it to be very, very funny to say that the president is not aware of what's happening. He is, let us not deceive ourselves, is the president of Republic of Nigeria, the federal republic of Nigeria. He has advisers, he has ministers, he has all sorts of aids, who feed him on the daily basis. I've seen several internet websites where they show the picture of the president and you see an unstable newspaper lined up on the table, and that means he reads most of these papers. You see television popping up, that means it's time to watch TV and the rest of them. So president is very much aware what we are lacking is the capacity of leadership. What we are lacking is a man that has foresight. What we are lacking is somebody that has a complete vision of the situation on the ground. What we are lacking is the leader with vision. What we are lacking is the leader with the foresight with the tenacity to be able to handle and sit down and look at the problem as it were and be able to handle this situation squarely as it should. And this is somebody that Nigeria would believe that he would do far better than the person he was replacing. They voted for him as a former general that he would be able to tackle the issue of insecurity being a former general. But what is happening you can see the barrage of attacks kidnapping, killings, onslaughts of Nigerians and nobody is saying anything. Only thing we get to hear from me, once there is an attack and killing you should press release and ask security those in charge of security to do the writing and the dons. Just few days ago there was an attack in the Catholic Church in Kaduna where three people were killed and so many were taken away. Now a hundred million ransom is being asked. That was an attack in the Catholic Church in our world. Where several people were killed, they were just buried just this last weekend and there have been serious attacks all over. We were talking about the one that happened along on the train between Kaduna and Abuja. Now report coming in is that most of some of them have been beaten by addicts. We have about nine allegedly to have died and the rest are just to be rescued. We have so many children across the country, especially in the northern parts that we are kidnapped for years now and nothing seems to be heard about them. Nobody is even talking about rescuing them. You cannot lie to the Legos about the expressway, the Legos Shagamu or Binin expressway, the Abuja Kaduna expressway, the Madrugiri expressway all over the country without being abducted. The privilege of a Church, of Methodist Church, was kidnapped a few weeks ago and it paid a 100 million ransom. What is where I want to say, do we go to the energy sector which we have been talking about that is total collapse of power across the country. The last time we had, we have come down to just about nine megawatts from about 4,500 to use to have. It has been consistently consistently breaking down and in the last few months, I can't remember how many times that the national breeders broken down. The government promised giving us power. The government in 2015 promised injecting 10,000 megawatt into the national grid on a yearly basis by nine to 70,000, but nothing. Then you are talking of, let's talk about the petrol lines. Just as when we started, we talked about what happened in Abuja. Last week we predicted that it's going to get to Lagos and other parts of the country. It's already Lagos, it's in Ibadon, it's in Korea and so many parts of the country. And the tragedy of it all is that the President, President Muhammad Ibuari is the Minister of Petroleum. He is the Minister of Petroleum. Timi Priyaseba is just the Minister of State. We have an MD of NMPC. We have tried to embody the NMPC to make it more effective. The total is the same. We are not right there in the central area. Up to Metama, up to Asokoro, up to Asorok, where the President's office is. We've seen line-up of cars for days, for weeks now. The President drove from Asorok to where for the what do we call it? June 12th celebration. Don't tell me that is this the queue. I'm sure he must have seen the queue. But I ask you, what has it done about it? The promise to give us new refineries. That was what the promise they made. Not a single refinery has been built in the past several years. Even the ones we had are totally collapsed. The four most diverse of Naira, including the Naira maintenance, they are not that the refinery is pumping that one single liter of, that is the level of corruption within the system. But as we are moving to 2023, we are afraid that we are going to get a leader who can really remove his leaves and get things done. We cannot continue this way as a country. Alright, let's move over to the politics and let's give them some airtime. Even though I wouldn't love to give them because they don't deserve it. But this is where we find ourselves. The issue of place. They don't deserve it because you look at the stories that affect the ordinary people. We are going to sit down here and talk about placeholder and no placeholder which has to do with whether things are going to change tomorrow because it's just politics. It's sad to hear that you and Abuja are saying that the president will probably have passed those queues on his way to the ego square. All those Abuja, those politicians who stomped Abuja for the various presidential primaries would have seen the queues on their way to the various places where they had the primaries. But people are moving on as if there is no issue. You wonder when they finish elections what are they coming to rule? And I would have asked you if you see us making it to 2022 without what I mean. But let's not go there for reasons best known to you and I. Let's look at the concept of placeholders. An ex-INEC chief is warning according to the punch newspaper that the interim running mates is a risky venture. We know that the all-progressive congress and the Labour Party have all gone down that route. I was arguing on my radio program last weekend, or last week rather when a caller was insisting that I was wrong. Because you look at section 33 or close to 33 of the electoral act, which is being cited by a lot of people commenting on this. It says nothing about running mates. It talks about those who are elected in primaries. And primaries can be rescheduled if the elected people write a letter saying they were drawn from the race. We rescheduled the primary. So what happened in the case of Umahi, he did it clean, came out unheard. I was his name. God said like, probably I tried to do it, but Maki said no. That could not work. So what are the thoughts on this? The lawyers were saying that the Labour Party and the APC may be treading on glasses here, making a mistake. Well, the commissioner for voters' education on INEC, first of all yesterday, was quoted as saying that there is nothing like what the quality was. Please hold. Within the electoral act as amended, and that the possibility of some of the two parties replacing the vice presidential candidate is a bit tight. But that is what it is. I know that within the electoral act there is a room for candidates. And as you said, you said that it is only for those who are included. But if those are later permitted to be substituted, definitely those that are also selected as vice presidential candidates or deputy governors, I believe, should forward in that category. That is my personal opinion. I have not taken time to go through that electoral act. I feel that. But the only thing I want to realise for me personally, even as I proceed on my social media handle is not being able to pick the vice presidential candidate at this time goes to show that the un-seriousness of the political parties and their presidential candidate. Because by now you respect that if you are running for the president as a presidential candidate of your party, you should have known by now who you want to pick as your vice presidential candidate. It is not something that is impossible. It is something that can be done. So you would have known since it is not today that they are just prepared to become presidential candidates of their parties. Probably say for someone like P2P, who is just known from PDP to Labour Party. But for the presidential candidate of APC and so many others, by now they would have known. Yes, you want to say that there is a lot of consultation that has to be done. Parties chiefs have to be consulted. Stakeholders have to be contacted and there has to be a much, much worse discussion on the threats. For me as far as I am concerned, if I think as in given that window of opportunity, and as talked to is gone that there is no substitution, once you submit to something, they would have come out with their vice presidential candidate as of today. So I think they are taking advantage of the electoral act and probably they still have some time. Somebody said yesterday that they have come to September or is it August to be able to do that. Let's see how it goes. But the chairing news for me is PDP. PDP seems to be on the ascendancy. Right from when they had their convention to elect their national officers to how they conducted their primaries. You see that PDP seems to be well prepared for 2023. APC as usual is thrown into stormy waters. Don't forget the problem they had having their convention whether to replace the interim national chairman and the executive. That took here almost months. The wrangles within the party and cumulative in the presidential primaries of the party. But good enough they came out of that and scattered. But it seems that there are so many students that have remained unturned with the APC and they are trying to do the rightful thing. But it is now left for us to come out to be specific and tell us whether they are categorically treated in Nigeria. Whether there is anything like place holding or no place holding within the electoral act that was passed. If that is not possible then what is the next option for the political parties? As you said discussing politics now doesn't make us happy because so much is going on. Nigerians are not happy if these things come like this you are going to see a lot of voters apart from 2023. If there is no voters apart then there may be a dramatic change from what we used to. A situation where people believe that it is just going to be a battle between APC and PDP. It may be wrong to have a third force. You can see people mobilizing and trying to get their PPC. And what I've already said is to get your PPC and make sure you vote in 2023. Alright let's go over to the daily independent because it has a very interesting headline. It pays attention to the ongoing revelations about the revenue generation in the country if we remember some time ago the World Bank I believe it is had said that if Kerry is not taking Nigeria's revenue, though this is a national monetary fund actually, had warned that the debt servicing might gulp 100% of the federal government's revenue by 2026. 100% already it is gulping what it is actually making from oil and gas or from Kudo sales projected in the budget. It says by 2026 if Kerry is not taking, it is going to gulp the entire of the nation's revenue. We are not talking about paying back the debt, we are simply talking about debt servicing. This headline from the Daily Independent it goes thus revenue generation falters as debt service increases by 109%. Earlier the debt management office, Chris Kane the one who had told us that debt servicing had doubled and hit 896 billion naira in three months. That's according to the debt management office. I mean this I'm sure must be another reason to feel asphyxiated if you want to use that word and suffocate it about a situation in the country. Yes it is. At the point it's not that we have we spent practically, at the point it was 90% about the 380 and 90% that we are using for debt servicing. And as you already mentioned, debt service is not that we are going to pay back the loans that we are going. This is just to say that it's just like you picking up a loan from a bank. The interest on that loan is what you are paying. You are not paying the sum, you are not paying the sum. So and profi, it's okay you some of us are practically gone dead when it comes to issues like this. There are so much legs on our neck that we are no longer breathing. At times they can put legs on your neck. This one we are not even breathing again. We are practically gone dead. Because if you look at the rates at which this federal government this current government had the burrowing, it was as if this burrowing is going out of existence. And most of all raise the eyebrow. And it doesn't go better telling us the finance minister and whatever, oh there is nothing around the burrowing. We can borrow as a country, it's not the minister of so many but the fact is that even those countries that you mentioned that are burrowing, you see that money to do. Because that is supposed to be invested in certain sectors that can yield back money for you to pay back. Kofi, before the upper central government left, he wiped out all the foreign debt of Nigeria. Company is zero. So between good law and between the term of good law that is when you have this file of debt and it seems unabated. That is one. Secondly, we are not exporting enough. Our only standard of exporting is the croat, which is close to about 80 to 90% of our foreign generation. But the lack on that also is that while we are exporting, we are also importing petroleum products. So whatever you think you are getting in selling crude oil, you are also spending on buying petroleum products. So that defeats your own foreign exchange. It also defeats your foreign reserve. If we have done the needs through, by now and we have enough capacity to refine our products, then there will be no need for us to spend so much money in importing petroleum products. We are even subsidizing those products. So it is a big, big problem. And I continue to ask, do you really have an economy team? In those days, we should have very strong economic team under the Basin region, where you have Okonjo-Iwala, you have OBS-Epocili, even Air Revive was also part of that. You have those at the DMO. It's a solid economic team, thick tank that takes out of the bus. And that was one we were going to do. So I tell you, the problem is that the crude oil was so-so amounted during that period, during the Jonathan period, during the Basin period, you cannot compare that with now. Hello, Ofi, since the commencement of the war in Ukraine, which has been going for months, the prices of crude have risen across the world, over skyrocketed. We are making so much in the world. Nobody is talking about that. Nobody is saying anything about that. It was also a month during the Good Lord Jonathan. You cannot compare to what was happening. It was also a month. Nobody is telling us how much we have been making in the past few months since the war in Ukraine. That is amazing.  You come and brood from me. You come and take from me. And now you take it to a party. And I meet you at the party. And you are dancing in our disco. I will want you to please, don't let this thing tear. Now, don't let this cloth tear. You will dance with caution. That is the problem because we are going so much. That is why IMF and the World Bank is detecting our economic policies. And we cannot go away from it. If we do, China will not give us money. U.S. will not give us money. World Bank will not give us money. IMF will not give up money. But this country is a country that is so rich and so blessed. We have so much mineral resources that we can explore properly. And we are going to come out with alternative to where and this country will go. What we lack is leadership. We lack visionary leaders who are able to take out of the cost and get those out of their roots. All right. We have the AKC Governor-elect denying the allegation still staying with the daily independent. Denying the allegation of vote-buying. They actually disagree with INEC over this issue of vote-buying. We've had accusations coming from the PDP in the United States, coming from the STP in the United States. And also the who won the election also accusing as well and defending and denying. Let's look at the headline on the front page of the independent very quickly because we have just two minutes. INEC disagrees with the KT Governor-elect over vote-buying. It says the Independent National Electro-Commission on Monday disagreed with Beodor Yabanczy, Governor-elect in last Saturday's election that there was vote-buying during the polls. However, INEC said it will continue to work with relevant agencies in the country to ensure that vote-buying and inducement to voters during the elections are reduced to the various minimums. So they are disagreeing with the Governor-elect that there was a vote-buying as far as that election was concerned. I mean, I'm sure you saw a few clips or at least one of the videos on social media. Chris, what are your thoughts on this? Because this may be a precursor to what will happen in the General Elections next year. The Governor-elect has just been economically out of the troops. He knows the issue. He knows that it is that. Let me know using what is lying, so that not to single economic disrespect. But the facts is there. Just as you mentioned you saw on social media people showing how much they collected. But that is not from me. That is from the convention of the various political parties. So what's happening now? We are dollars, thousands of dollars, we are being exchanged for food. Those, the people now at the grassroots are also trying to say, oh, it is our thought. Give us our own share of the money too. Now the system, the electoral system in Nigeria have been so politicized that what we are just seeing is just a child's play of what is going to play out in 2023. It's only those that have the deep pocket that will decide to open the election. The most qualified set of people will not be put away. Because this is becoming a Naira-based and Tullah-based election for Nigeria. They are pushing it. We must know it's going to be an issue and the same thing will play out. Then before we go into the general election in 2023. But as you, because you asked yourself, is it a function of poverty or just that people don't know what they want to do? I will say it's a conditional, a combination of two. Poverty. People cannot even feed for themselves. Some people are going to bed without food. A hungry man is an angry man. A hungry man that doesn't seem to be able to feed his family. If he sees someone that will give him 5000 Naira just for him to just give him before, they will do it. That is the level of poverty in the country. Until we eradicate poverty. This is how we are going to be. We saw the movement of ESCC here and here trying to arrest people. They can, how many people there, arrest. The issue is that a lot of enlightenment has to be done. And people have been told that by selling your food for 5000 Naira you have sold your precious, you have sold your family, you have sold your future generation and you remain in this perpetual state where you are. Because you will not give room to and let those that can be able to improve your life. After 5000, how many people, how many days will it last? Probably 24 hours. At the end of it, what happens? But you have sold your future. So the governor and he knows the truth and saying that there was no food buying. Even a minister in this government was quoted as saying that it was not only the ruling party that voted or whatever at the election in equity. That he went across God. And I tend to believe him. But that is how we roll. Nigeria we held him. Interesting. At least we made it through this episode about the press. Chris came over. It has been a very hectic. One of the most hectic show I've had in months and it's just so sad that this is where it went. It's not a smiley matter. It's not a laughing matter. Nigerians we are suffering. We are in conflict. You need to go to the airport and see the number of Nigerians that are trapped and not on this continent. People are ready to move as far as Afghanistan as far as the situation is. So people are ready to go to Ukraine. Some Nigerians are ready to go and raise their lives there. And it doesn't concern our leaders. They don't care. Our life does not matter. QED. Chris came over to thank you very much for your time. Thank you very much for having me.  All will be well. If you don't worry. They cannot spend their own time. And spend hours to go to intervene on our behalf. You too. You too. It is world like we say in this part of the world. Even if the sky is falling on your head. It is well. We'll take a break now and look at what happened today, the 21st of June in history where we come back. We drive straight into our first major conversation. Please stay with us.


I am at the point where I genuinely believe every single person following a vegan diet is covering up an eating disorder. Seeing as the vegan diet is an eating disorder itself, the justification of the lack of nutrition from a vitamin standpoint as well as caloric standpoint is nothing short of a cult. How out of touch with reality you have to be to not see the ridiculousness of this diet is outstanding. The young lady we are going to see today is clearly living in her own world and as I said before, I would love to be reborn as a hot as hell vegan girl with an IQ of 60. They seem blissfully happy and unaware of everything going on around them. I guess it's a combination of that IQ level and depriving their brain of vitamin B12 and fatty acids and other various nutrients. The vegan diet does not provide adequate nutrition in anything, vitamins, minerals, elements, fatty acids and that becomes painfully obvious when we see how these people are looking and behaving. Good morning guys. Welcome back to my channel. So I'm Selena Seychelles and I thought I'd show you everything I eat in a day on vacation. A super healthy vegan and I hope it gives you some inspiration how to stay healthy while traveling. It really is not that hard. So yeah, let me show you. Hey, I got to give these vegans some credit. They're reasonably good at creating an illusion of health to the average person from playing the happy upbeat music to constantly saying the word healthy, they even got me going a little bit. But if you look at what they are actually doing from the foods they're eating, typically being pure sugar and the massive amounts of jump cuts in their video, how they always have to be out in the daylight because the only form of lighting they look reasonable in is daylight, things become much clearer. You have to kind of look past the editing, the happy music, all of this BS to actually see what's going on. So I also wanted to show you guys something that I usually ask for whenever I'm in like tropical places where they have lots of aloe vera plants. So this is just pure natural aloe vera and so what I typically ask for is that they give us like the aloe vera leaves and they cut it already in half and then you only need to basically take half of the leaf and rub it in your face and you see like the gel here. This is the pure aloe vera. So this is also what's in my aloe vera juice in London that I put in my water and it's so hydrating and really like replenished and especially after the sun it's really cooling and so good for your skin. So yeah I just rub this in my face and it's like an all natural face mask. So you take the aloe vera leaves and you just rub like the gel in your face, it's so good, it's so cooling and it's like pure hydration in your skin. So yeah this is just something to keep in mind. I'm a little bit confused here. What are we actually replenishing young lady? Let's see, reduces wrinkles, hydrates your skin, heals acne, a little bit misleading but okay, internal news, relieve constipation, reduces inflammation, stabilizes blood sugar level.  I'm glad to see this young lady is no longer drinking the aloe vera in the actual video. In her last video that's what she was doing and drinking aloe vera is considered toxic by some people. It's actually dangerous, it's something you shouldn't be doing, it damages your stomach but hey, anything that damages your body in the context of a vegan diet is known as detox. When your organs and muscle tissue literally turns gray, no that's just your body detoxing all the bad stuff. So yeah, this is just something to keep in mind, it doesn't cost anything in food, so good. You mean it doesn't cost anything after you've already spent a few thousand dollars on vacation to a resort? So I'm at the gym doing a quick workout and I'm using the P-Volt workouts. It's basically an online platform with all kinds of workouts and you can choose between ones with equipment or without equipment, choose a body part you want to eat something to keep in order. So good. So I'm at the gym doing a quick workout and I'm good. So I'm at the gym doing a quick workout like pure hydration in the skin. So yeah, this is just something to keep in mind, it doesn't cost anything in food, so good. So I'm at the gym doing a quick workout, so I'm at the gym doing a quick workout like pure hydration in the skin. So yeah, this is just something to keep in mind, it doesn't cost anything in food, so good. So I'm at the gym doing a quick workout and I'm using the P-Volt workouts. It's basically an online platform with all kinds of workouts and you can choose between ones with equipment or without equipment. Choose a body part you want to focus on and most important they're so easy to do anywhere so yeah I love to do the workouts especially when I'm traveling. And you also get 30 days of free streaming using my code Caroline so yeah try it out let me know what you guys think. I love them and so many of my friends are doing them as well yeah I can really recommend it. You also get 20% off the equipment at their website yeah let me know what you guys think I hope you try it out because it's really working and they're have all kinds of different levels for beginners for more advanced workout people. So this is the website and then you can choose between all the workouts I was thinking of doing they also tell you how long they are so depending on how much time you have. So this one sounds great with no equipment on the mat so I'm going to do this one and then it plays and it's really easy to follow they're doing it in real time so I love that as well. I mean I wouldn't really consider getting naked and stretching a workout but when you don't have energy because of your starvation diet it makes a lot of sense and this might actually be a reason where even people on a normal diet especially women don't really exercise intensely in the gym. They're inclined to starve themselves because of the modern cultural wisdom of caloric restriction when trying to lose weight I mean that's pretty much what this girl is doing here but when you reduce your protein intake your fat intake your overall caloric intake you barely have the energy to move let alone perform an intense workout. I'm sure she feels incredibly tired and lethargic you can notice in the way she's talking you know she talks very slow she pauses between words but I mean hey maybe I'm just jealous maybe I just want to dress up in those cute pink booty shorts and stretch in front of the camera for everyone. So giving you guys a little body update so yeah I've been eating a bit more fat in the last few months and I have gained a little weight but yeah I feel amazing that is all that matters. When looking at the physique of these vegans it's really unusual they seem super lean yet they are still storing adipose tissue on their stomach this is because of insulin resistance bloating essentially consuming a high carbohydrate diet without adequate protein and even when they are relatively lean and they look attractive by modern standards you can tell there is no semblance of muscle mass or lean body mass on these vegan people they are literally enabled to build up muscle mass yet people like bringing up oh vegan bodybuilder this vegan bodybuilder that I'm getting plenty of protein from lentils and beans as I fought my brains out in reality if it was possible to get plenty of protein on a vegan diet and build muscle why does everyone look like an emaciated stick figure.  Whenever I travel to the beach somewhere warm where I'm like tanning going for a swim and being in a bikini all day I do like longer intermittent fasting so I basically narrowed down the hours of the day where I eat to about 45 hours and I have seen so many benefits from doing that I just feel lighter during the day I have more energy I have fewer thoughts I'm more efficient I get so much stuff done that's what I do and it works for me and it has a ton of other benefits if you're looking to lose weight to clear your skin this is amazing for your digestion as well I'm a big fan of that and what I do when I go to hotels I order the breakfast and then I just keep it in the fridge so it's nice and cool for when I'm back and have my meal and also at 4 o'clock I feel like I enjoy my meal more because I've done something for it's not like you wake up and you have breakfast and then you're all tired itself so I kind of feel like I earned my meal and I'm really enjoying it a lot more yeah I'm looking forward to my big fruit meal so what I do I have a big fruit meal at 4 and then I have dinner around 7 when I show you my dinner later. In the title of this video it actually says nothing till 4 freely the banana girl actually has something called raw till 4 where you only eat raw vegan foods until 4 o'clock and then you can have whatever I really don't like seeing this woman in a bikini you know with the waves crashing against the beach in the background happy music playing all tan you know essentially encouraging a starvation diet the reason she feels better you know not eating most of the day is probably because her blood sugar is not fluctuating like crazy and possibly because she's not feeding the plant-based mole demon in her stomach when you have a bacterial imbalance or stomach issues which this girl likely does considering she drinks aloe vera juice an imbalance of bacteria in your stomach and having too much of one bacteria can cause issues whenever you eat a meal when you're feeding that bacteria they release certain toxins and negative substances that can cause brain fog so this is what I'm having so I basically always travel with a big Tupperware glass box I just put this in my luggage um or I have it with me on the flight so I pack all the fruits from the breakfast in there and I also had a bit more so I keep this in the fridge it's nice fresh and cold I still have one green juice so I'm going to drink that first and then I'm going to start having watermelon because this is the fruit that digest the quickest so you want to have that first so basically you want to eat your way up start with the fruits that digest the easiest and watermelon is basically just 90% water so it's been digested in like 15 minutes and then I have the honey melon so you basically eat all the honey melon from that bowl then I go to the pineapple papaya and mangoes and I'm also gonna have a few bananas so I never count calories I know you guys are very interested in it so I'm gonna basically just tell you how many calories it has but I never count it and I just eat what feels right for me seriously don't worry about calories just eat what makes you feel your best and that's all you have to worry about papaya is so good for digestion actually papaya and pineapple are two of the fruits that are richest in enzymes really gives you the digestion a good kick start for the day watermelon some mango and of course some green juice so I have about two bottles a day sometimes with more watermelon digest quickly I think what she means is that it enters and leaves the stomach quickly because it actually takes your body a couple of hours to deal with all of the fruit sugar the fruit toast your liver has to process it and that is not quick by any means she doesn't count calories that is a crazy amount of fruit the only way she feels good after eating that meal is by getting a sugar rush and there's no way she feels satiated it must just be a feeling of fullness from maximizing her stomach capacity she goes on to mention enzymes and papaya and pineapple but the enzymes in these foods don't really help you with digestion because they simply don't compare to what our bodies are capable of our stomachs are incredibly acidic and our bodies produce a variety of enzymes that are used to absorb nutrients and just giving you a quick look after view how nice is that drink that slop oh man this juice is celery cucumber lemon ginger and spinach so I know everyone's crazy about celery juice but I have been drinking this juice for so many years and it makes me feel amazing so yeah I feel like it has the same benefits but if you prefer celery juice it's just as good it's probably a little tastier because this tastes quite strong I'm not gonna lie but yeah best thing for your skin drinking green juice is the best thing for your skin I don't think I've ever heard that one before I'm pretty sure that would be debunked by a five-year-old child but I do enjoy the passive aggressive undertone oh I've been doing this for like three years and this makes me feel amazing but your celery juice might taste a little better because I'm suffering through this nutrition that is making my skin glow really nut snack so my dinner starter is also a big plate of fruit dinner is ready so I'm going to show you what I'm having this is just pure greens and I want to like wrap all the veggies in the green so I make like some little nice wraps here I got some baked sweet potatoes again no oil and no salt some cherry tomatoes some more greens and some avocado I don't really see how any of these vegans can say she's not eating enough calories how can a human being possibly fit any more food into their stomach the volume of food these vegans are eating is ridiculous if humans were actually cows their stomach capacity would be about five gallons that's the equivalent stomach comparison size of a human to a cow and if you look at how much food these vegans need to eat you know their food volume is incredibly high imagine just having a steak with the side of butter that's literally the equivalent to as many calories as this girl ate today yet I'm sure it's like three to five percent of the physical volume size if that isn't enough of a signal from nature telling you what foods humans should be eating then I really don't know how to explain it how are you going to say that you can go into nature harvest all these foods vegetables prepare them eat that incredible amount of food all day it's not actually physically possible so thank you guys for joining me today it needs to be made much clearer to the general population that veganism is simply an eating disorder for people that like cute cuddly animals maybe I should start wearing my bunny ears more often putting on some cute animal suits and vegans would start liking me so if you guys can please like subscribe hit that bell icon and share the video if you can if you guys would like to support me further check out some of the other videos on my channel in addition to that I've recently launched Frankie's free range meat our goal to provide you guys with high quality nutrient-dense animal foods maybe next time this young lady is traveling on vacation she can order one of our non-perishable jerky and pemmican packages for merely $100 you can sustain yourself for one whole week off of our pemmican and jerky it is a native indigenous travel food it's non-perishable super calorie dense super nutrient dense especially when you're drinking green sludge for your nutrition again thank you guys for joining me enjoy the rest of the weekend