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requiring less (;l<)tliiii,i;. The women look after and mend the clothes, 

 not only of their husbands and children, but also of the other appren- 

 tices, and prepare their food. 



I shall now mention in detail and make a few remarks on the qualifi- 

 cations of each apprentice separately, and 1 shall present them in the 

 same ordeiias that given in the above list: 



Moses. He is the boy that came from St. James mission, on Yukon 

 Eiver, in 1893, and who was not accepted as an apprentice by the then 

 superintendent, Miner W. Bruce. Mr. Bruce very properly refused to 

 accept him on account of the boy's peculiar character, but he was 

 accepted by the superintendent, W. T. Lop]), which ])robab]y was a 

 mistake. It was thought best last fall to let the boy go at once, and so 

 Cai)t. M. A. Healy was asked to be kind enough to take the boy to St. 

 Michael, the boy stating that he could get home from that place at any 

 time, but Captain Healy declined taking him, although the boy had 

 spent the winter at the station and proved himself a great annoyance 

 to everybody. He could not be sent away in the dead of the winter, 

 as he was far away from his home and could not get to it in the winter 

 season, nor could he be turned out among the Eskimo, who do not feel 

 friendly toward the Indian. A letter was sent to Mr. W. T. Lopp, the 

 present manager of the mission station and of the herd at Cape Prince 

 of Wales, asking whether he would take Moses and keep him with his 

 herd, as it was supposed Mr. W. T. Lopp was fond of the boy and 

 had favored him above others at this station a year ago, but Mr. Lopp 

 refused to receive the boy, and it only remains to be said that he will 

 be discharged and sent home the first opportunity, and the reasons for 

 the discharge have been stated in a letter already written to the St. 

 James mission, being as follows: 



He is too expensive for the station, too smart for the people, too dudish for the 

 other apprentices too rongh for the children, and too lazy to become a herder. 



Martin Jacobson came to the station in January, 1891, from the 

 Swedish mission station in Uualakalit, and is much easier to get 

 along with than Moses, but he takes no interest whatever in his work 

 with the reindeer. He is pretty clumsy in all that he attempts to do 

 and thinks himself too smart to obey orders and to begin work as a 

 herder, but 1 think he has a sound judgment and that he has a likiug 

 for work in the school. 



Tatpan (Herbert) came the same time as Martin Jacobson and his 

 home is in Golovin Bay or Unalaklik. According to a letter he 

 brought with him he was sent here on the recommendation of Capt. 

 ^I. A. Healy and has now left the station, being at this time one of 

 Antisarlook's herders, while his two reindeer are still in our herd and 

 will be sent with the herd that goes to Golovin Bay, where Tatpan will 

 continue as herder. His qualifications for becoming a herder were 

 fairly good and it may be presumed that some time in the future he 

 will be able to take charge of his own herd. 



