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Show 388 REPORT OF SUPrltINTENDENT OF INDIAN SCHOOLS. Total ............................................................ ' 1% 1 988 10 . . . . . . . . . . ~~~ ! .- 1~:lacnIioanl alnlisliaa. The number of child re^^ reg~~rteai?l of scltool age (856) is fnlly np to the highest estimates, I t l l i~~akn,d therefore it may be presumed that not many cliildren are habitnally neglecting edocatio~t~h,o agh some of the 'is5 may be from points outside of reservations, and not enumerated in the census. The first Indian scl~ools in this region were started in 1855-feeble beginniugs-almost simultaneously within the Puya.11up and Tulalip agencies. It was not t,ill after about 1870 that these schools made mneh progress. As awhole, they are now among the best in the Indian service; all far above the average. TlleGovern~nenst choolat Puyallup is a "No. 1" s~ho01; the contra(.t school at Tnlalip ranks high among schools of that cl;~ss;a nd the day school at Lnmmi has few equals in its class. In the Pnyallup Agency a teacliers' institute has been kept up for about ten ye;rrs. The last sessioll was held at the Quinaielt Boarding School. This toolr the teachers from the ot,her schools to Hoquaim, on Gray's Harbor, then by a tugboat to Da.1non1s Point, and thence by teams for 30 miles up the Pacific coast, where one could travel only when t,l~tei de is out, to the Quinaielt River. Gulls, seals, arid occa-sionally a sea, otter entertained the travelers; and huge logs-sonie-times California redmoods-washed up from the oeeau skirt the high-water mark on the landward side. Here on the limbo of civilization, among fish-eating Indians, the teachers convened and were fed with the most delicious salmon. Until recently the schoolhouse stood vhere the spray from high tides beat upon its roof, and the salmon from the Quinaielt could almost. leap into its door, while a few rodsin the rear the dense, almost impenetrable forests, where roam the verit-able bear, deer, and elk, stretch back into the Olyn~pich ighland solitudes. THE PUYALLUP RESERVATION. This reservation lies close to Tacoma-two or three miles away. The application of the L'land in severalty" policy of t t e Government |