FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO ST. LAWRENCE BAY. 95 



Mr. Newman, consisting of our fur clothing, forty dogs, 

 five clog sleds, forty sets dog harness, snow-shoes, 

 tanned seal-skins, dressed beaver-skins, twelve sleeping 

 bao-s, sixty-nine pairs seal-skin boots, seven pairs deer- 

 skin boots, twenty-two pairs water boots, seventy-eight 

 pairs blanket socks, thirteen dressed skins, two dressed 

 wolf-skins, fifty-two double squirrel jumpers, twenty 

 single squirrel jumpers, four light squirrel jumpers, 

 three tame deer-skins, fifty deer-skin pantaloons, twelve 

 hair - seal pantaloons, one undressed deer - skin, four 

 dressed beaver-skins, one baidera, twenty cakes, 2,290 

 lbs. compressed dog food, etc. The made up garments 

 have been manufactured from the skins, and ten blan- 

 kets we sent on shore upon our arrival. 



Mr. Newman generously presented me with a Win- 

 chester sixteen-shooter, eight hundred rounds ammuni- 

 tion, tw^o deer-skin jumpers (parkies), seal-skin boots, 

 water boots, sleeping bag, gloves, and fur cap. To 

 this I must add a beautiful Arctic hare coverlet from 

 Mr. Ketchum, and sixty mink-skins from the same gen- 

 tleman for ship's use. 



In our communications w^ith the natives on the Si- 

 berian side we must have an interpreter, and it is ad- 

 visable also to have some one acquainted with the 

 driving and management of dogs and sleds. For these 

 reasons I have hired two natives, named respectively 

 Alexey and Aneguin, recommended by Messrs. Newman 

 and Nelson, the Signal Corps observer, as well as col- 

 lector for the Smithsonian Institution. Alexey was a 

 collector of specimens for him, and speaks English and 

 even writes it a little. 



The terms of agreement are as follows : Alexey is 

 to receive twenty dollars per month and a proper out- 

 fit, which amounts to fifty dollars, and at the comple- 



