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using more and more driftwood, stoves taking the place of seal-oil 

 lamps, the jirospects for the future are not bright. I have considered 

 the matter very carefully and the result of my contemplations I will 

 present in a recommendation that coal be imported, at least enough for 

 the use of the school. In that case the supply of driftwood still to be 

 found in this side of the bay will last much longer. Herders and 

 apprentices will possibly be able to find what they need and the private 

 people living at the station will have to be left to themselves to get 

 fuel as best they can. 



Either coal should be imported or a naphtha or electric boat procured 

 whereby fuel can be towed in rafts during the summer from the south- 

 west side of Point Spencer and other remote places where timber for 

 building purposes might also be brought to the station instead of 

 importing materials from the States. Such a boat would also be useful 

 in a hundred ways in connection with fishing, in connection with and 

 transporting of provisions to the camp, and in making visits to the 

 herd, etc. 



Which one of these recommendations will be cheapest in the long 

 run I will leave to you to determine; but I will add that a naphtha or 

 electric boat would, in addition to bringing fuel, be of three times as 

 much use during the year as the same amount of money spent for coal. 

 There are several persons here who have the pecessary skill and knowl- 

 edge to handle and take care of such a boat. 



As no real assistant has been appointed at the station during the 

 past year, there are doubtless many things which should have been 

 done that have been left undone. One man can only do one thing at a 

 time. I have the satisfaction of having done the best I have been able, 

 and all the necessary things have been done in the right time; and it may 

 be said in general that matters have received as good a supervision as I 

 have been able to give them. The question concerning an assistant will 

 be discussed and determined when a man arrives here this year to inspect 

 the station and transact the necessary business. 



Any defect in the report must not be ascribed to any negligence on 

 my part, but solely to my want of the proper education necessary to 

 present my ideas suitably in writing in the English language, my edu- 

 cation having been in Norwegian. Finally, I wish you every blessing 

 and hai^piness, and I hope you may be eminently successful in your 

 effort to help and elevate these people who lie buried in heathendom. 

 I also wish to express my hearty thanks to those who have assisted and 

 who are still assisting you in this great work. 



I remain, dear sir, your obedient servant, 



William A. Kjellmann. 



Dr. Sheldon Jackson, 



Bureau of Education, Washington^ D. G. 



