REINDEER AND MUSK-OX 



While it might possibly be found best to let them first settle together in 

 suitable territory on the Canadian Labrador, so as to give them a racial home 

 and rallying point, it must be remembered that their instincts are nomadic, and 

 that, therefore, there would probably be but little difficulty in arranging with 

 them to act as herders for the Government either on salary or on a share basis, 

 at any point in the north country where it was thought advisable to establish 

 a herd. 



A copy of a memorandum, prepared by Mr. Hjalmar Lundbohm, delegate 

 of the Royal Swedish Government, for the information of the United States 

 Bureau of Education, is attached as Appendix No. XII to this report, and will 

 be found well worthy of attention, as giving most interesting data regarding 

 Lapps and their reindeer herds in Sweden and Norway. 



Appendices No. X and No. XIV deal with reindeer in Siberia, the former 

 being an extract from Chapter No. XV^III of the "Cruise of the Corwin," by 

 John Muir, while the latter embodies excerpts from the submissions of Com- 

 modore B. F. Bertholf, formerly Commandant of the LTnited States Coast Guard 

 Service schooner Bear, in Bering sea. 



A memorandum regarding reindeer in Northern Europe, prepared at the 

 request of the Commission by Captain A. Allanach, is also submitted as Appen- 

 dix No. XIII. 



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