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the herd had been driven off to the north side of the Cape Serdze. 

 Again getting under way, we steamed around the cape and came to 

 anchor off Enwonnau at 10 o'clock. Lieutenant White and myself at 

 once went ashore for deer; there were three large herds in the vicinity. 

 Again we encountered a number of natives from Cape Prince of Wales, 

 who were buying and killing on their own account. While one of the 

 herds was being driven down to the beach I took occasion to visit one 

 of the camps of the deer men. I found seven deerskin tents. Around 

 the largest were stacked 34 sleighs; another had 29, and the others, 

 respectively, 15, 12, 9, 7, and 0. The camp aggregated 102 sleighs. In 

 the fall the tents, household effects, and families are carried on these 

 sleighs and taken with the herd from 50 to 150 miles into the interior; 

 the following spring they return again to the coast, thus making two 

 migrations every year. During the day 15 deer were secured. The 

 next day Lieutenant White went ashore, but soon returned and reported 

 that the deer had stampeded during the night and that the herders 

 had gone after them. All day was consumed in waiting in vain. 



On September 4, there being signs of heavy ice coming in and shutting 

 off our escape from the bay, at 4 a. m. the ship got under way in a 

 dense fog and worked slowly southward through the heavy floes, occa- 

 sionally striking one miles in extent. By noon we were clear of the 

 ice, but the fog became so dense that the captain was afraid to venture 

 to pass through Bering Straits and kept off until morning. The next 

 morning passing through Bering Straits, at noon we stopped at the 

 village of Cape Prince of Wales ; Mr. Lopp being absent and there being 

 no communication with the shore, the ship again got under way, reach- 

 ing the reindeer station at half past 9 o'clock that evening. The next 

 morniug, under the directions of Mr. Kjellmann and the Lapps, the 

 reindeer were thrown overboard and made to swim ashore, instead of 

 being carried ashore by boat, as upon previous occasions. This was a 

 great improvement in the method of landing them. The ship remained 

 at anchor until the evening of September 20, the time being consumed 

 in looking after the interests of the station. At 10 p. m. the ship got 

 under way for St. Michael, which we reached at noon, September 10. 

 At St. Michael, Mr. Funston, of the Department of Agriculture, who 

 had been spending two years in botanical studies in the Arctic, was 

 received on board; also Capt. J. J. flealy, of the Yukon River, and 

 Mr. V. Wilson, correspondent of the Century Magazine, and Capt. C. 

 Constantine, of the Canadian mounted police and customs service; 

 also 20 destitute miners from the Yukon region. 



At noon on the 13th of September, bidding the good friends at St. 

 Michael good-bye, the ship got under way for St. Lawrence Island where 

 we arrived on the morning of the 15th. Mr. Gambell and several boat- 

 loads of natives were sent on board, and in the afternoon a number of 

 us returned with them to the shore. During the absence of the ship 

 Mr. Gambell and the carpenter had built a storm door to the house and 

 a good storehouse for the supplies, and fenced the whole in with a good 



