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ALASKA INDUSTRIES. 



his task is done. He has a great deal of common sense. He and Kum 

 Muk have at times kept the watch without any herders, and everything 

 has been satisfactory, even during the season when the fawns are 

 dropped. 



This description of the qualifications of the apprentices will be of 

 some use to them when they find out that their conduct and their indus- 

 try is mentioned outside of the station, but to what extent it will be 

 useful to me is somewhat doubtful. I am obliged to tell the naked 

 truth, and that is sometimes hard to hear, both for the Eskimos and for 

 others. The following ration list will exhibit to you how our people 

 have been treated. The list here given has been followed throughout 

 the year, excepting as to the potatoes, which froze and became useless. 



Bation list for herders and apprentices at Teller Reindeer Station, Port Clarence, 1894-95. 



[Four weeks' ration.] 



Name and nimiber in family. 



Johan Spimsen Tornensis, 



wife, and one child 



Mikkel T. Nakkild and wife. 

 SamuelT. Kemi.wife, and one 



child 



Aslak L. Loneby, wife, and 



one child 



Mathis A. Eira, wife, and one 



child 



Per. A.Eist 



Frederik Larsen 



Lbs. 

 60 

 60 



Lbs. 



Lbs. 

 40 

 40 



40 



45 



45 

 20 

 20 



Lbs. 



5 

 5 



Lbs. 

 5 



4 



Lbs. 

 40 

 40 



40 



40 



40 

 20 

 20 



Lbs. 

 1 

 1 



1 

 1| 



h 



qts. 



2 



2 



Boxes 

 10 

 10 



Pes. 

 50 

 60 



60 



60 



60 

 30 

 30 



Lbs. 



Lbs. 



Lbs. 



Eemarks.— They are furnished all the fish they want. The navy bread is given when they come 

 from camp on Sundays to go to church and bring no food with them. If no rice is to be had they are 

 given rolled oats instead. 



For Eskimo apprentices and their wives and children at Teller Reindeer Station, Port 



Clarence. 



[One week's ration. Two children get one ration.] 



Flour pounds . . 6 



Navy bread pieces.. 40 



Tea package. . \ 



Molasses quart . . | 



Beans pounds . . 3 



Eice do 2 



Soap do I 



Corn meal do 2 



Matclies boxes.. 2 



Meat or pork pounds.. 4 



Eemarks. — They are given all the fish and seal oil they want. Beans given one 

 week and rice the next week. Seal meat is not weighed, as they get all they want 

 during the season. Tobacco is earned by those who work overtime, after January 

 1, 1895. One-sixth pound of tobacco given a week until January 1, 1895. 



It was thought best to give a certain ration on a fixed time, so as not 

 to have the disagreeable disappointment of finding that the supply of 

 provisions had given out in the middle of the winter. With this in 

 view, a quantity of the various kinds of provisions was calculated and 



