50 INTRODUCTION OF DOMESTIC REINDEER INTO ALASKA. 



his making his appearance. 1 received a letter from Mr. William 

 Hamilton, and a draft for money, with orders to proceed at once to 

 Madison. In this letter I was informed that upon my arrival at Madi- 

 son, Wis., Prof. Easmus B. Anderson would take charge of the trans- 

 portation from that point, and so it became necessary for me to hasten 

 matters myself in New York as best I could, with the kind assistance 

 of Oai)tain Schjott. At 11 o'clock in the forenoon we were landed, and 

 there was a running to and fro to get things into shape. The most 

 difficult thing was to get the dogs removed from the ship, as these 

 fellow- travelers of ours were not found in the list of passengers, and 

 consequently did not come under the charge of the officers of Ellis 

 Island. The dogs were a part of the baggage, and had to be taken 

 through the custom-house. 



We brought the dogs ashore for breeding purposes, but did not have 

 the necessary certificates from the breeding station in Europe whence 

 they came, for the simple reason that the dogs did not come from any 

 breeding station, but from the mountains and snow fields of Lapland. 

 By the assistance of a quick-witted broker, we got the dogs out of the 

 custom-honse by my signing a long document full of assurances, and 

 this document was no doubt carefully preserved for future reference. 

 It was a great relief to get this business out of the way, but then it 

 came like a bolt of thunder out of a clear sky that the dogs could not 

 be transported any farther as baggage, and so there was another run- 

 ning hither and thither, which ended in my taking the dogs to the 

 express company and sending them by exjiress, a matter of no slight 

 expense, as you have seen from the statement of my account rendered 

 to you a year ago, but there was no other way, and altliough the Lapps 

 protested vociferously against being separated from their dogs, it could 

 not be helped. At 6 o'clock in the afternoon, matters were sufficiently 

 arranged so that I could begin to think of the Lapi)s. They liad passed 

 the necessary insi)ection at Ellis Island and had come to the city, where 

 they were found in a hotel, at which we all got a refreshing supper. 

 Then we went to the ferry and to the West Shore Railroad station, 

 where we took the train at 8.30 in the evening, utterly exhausted from 

 the heat and work of the day. 



We bought second-class tickets from New York to Madison, Wis., at 

 the ticket office of E. A. Johnson, in New York. But these tickets 

 proved to be very defective, partly perhaps on account of the hurry in 

 which they were issued, for transfer coupons lacked on several of them 

 when we arrived in Chicago, and our only comi^ensation for this extra 

 expense and for taking second-class tickets was, that we arrived in 

 Chicago four hours later than passengers who had left New York two 

 hoiTrs earlier than we did and bought emigrant tickets. The trouble 

 and annoyance are now forgotten, and so I will say no more about it, 

 but keep the matter in remembrance until the next time. On Penticost 

 Sunday, the 1.3th of May, we reached Buffalo. Here we changed cars 



