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miles through a country without a road or trail, 

 were made as follow: First trip, fourteen days; 

 second trip, thirteen days; third trip, eleven and 

 one-half days; fourth trip, eleven and one-half 

 days; and fifth trip, fifteen days. The actual 

 traveling time was from one to two days less than 

 the foregoing figures, as a rest of twenty-four to 

 thirty hours was taken at Nome and a shorter 

 rest at Golofnin each way. 



As the instructions for carrying the mail came 

 suddenly and unexpectedly, there was no oppor- 

 tunity for preparing the route for relays of rein- 

 deer, but the same deer made the round trip. 



At the request of Mr. N. V. Hendricks, subcon- 

 tractor, on the route between Weare via Eaton 

 and St. Michael, Superintendent Gambell fur- 

 nished his mail-carriers with reindeer, pack-sad- 

 dles, and sleds between St. Michael, Eaton, and 

 Nulato, a distance of 180 to 200 miles each way. 



The above routes aggregated between 6,000 and 

 7,000 miles that were successfully covered by the 

 reindeer. The superintendent, in closing this part 

 of his report, says : " Our success in carrying the 

 mail was due to three conditions : First, the capa- 

 bility of the deer; second, the close attention given 

 to the work by Mr. Sherzer; and, third, the ex- 

 pertness of the driver, Nils Klemetsen." 



A contract was made with Superintendent 

 Gambell for carrying the mail with reindeer dur- 

 ing the winter of 1900-1901 between Eaton and 

 Kotzebue, a distance of approximately 250 miles. 

 'The contract calls for two round trips during the 

 winter. 



There being an unusual number of prospectors 

 in the country during the winter of 1899-1900, 

 Mr. Lopp established a reindeer express between 

 the mining-camps at York and Nome. As far as 

 the deer were concerned the line was a success; 

 but there being an insufficient amount of patron- 

 age to make it profitable, the line was discon- 

 tinued after two round trips. 



The deer were also used to a limited extent in 

 the carrying of freight. 



One of the most important events in the year's 

 work was the placing of the first herd on St. Law- 

 rence island, which Dr. Jackson thus graphically 

 describes in his report : 



" It had been in the plans of the department 

 for two or three years to stock this large and 

 important island with a herd of reindeer, but it 

 had not been convenient to do so until the present 

 season. Reaching the village, we met an unex- 

 pected difficulty. The people were so discouraged 

 by the large number of deaths that they had lost 

 all hope and ambition, and did not care whether 

 they secured the reindeer or not, although in sev- 

 eral preceding seasons when we visited them they 

 had been begging and urging that deer should be 

 placed upon their island. The temporary dis- 

 couragement was so great that none could be 

 found who were willing to become herders. Under 

 the circumstances, nothing could be done but 

 abandon the project of placing deer upon the 

 island and return the deer to Teller Reindeer Sta- 

 tion. During the night, however, some of the 

 younger men of the village who had been off hunt- 

 ing returned, and finding that I had decided to 

 take the deer away, they called a meeting of the 

 more progressive men of the village and came to 

 me with their earnest remonstrances against not 

 landing the deer. When I informed them that it 

 was a question of finding a number of young men 

 who were willing to become apprentices and learn 

 to manage deer, they at once offered their own 

 sons. Consequently, on the afternoon of the 30th, 

 29 reindeer were landed on the island to the east- 

 ward of the village." 

 VOL, XLI. 2 A 



ANGLICAN CHURCHES. General Sta- 

 tistics. The voluntary offerings of the Church 

 of England for the year ended Easter, 1900, as 

 tabulated and published in The Times, London, 

 by Canon Burnside, the honorary editor of the 

 Official Year-Book of the Church of England, were 

 as follow: 



I. Funds contributed to central and diocesan 

 societies and institutions: 1, Home missions, 

 599,406 14s. 10d.; 2, foreign missions, 831,093 

 14s. Qd.; 3, educational work, 132,752 9s. 9rf.; 

 4, the clergy (educational and charitable assist- 

 ance), 180,515 4s. 8d.; 5, philanthropic work, 

 522,829 8s. 8d.j total, 2,266,597 12s. Sd. 



II. Funds locally raised and locally adminis- 

 tered : 1, For the parochial clergy, 822,878 Os. 2d. ; 

 2, for elementary education, 1,119,760 lls. 3d.; 3, 

 for general parochial purposes, 3,561,756 lls.; 

 total, 5,504,395 2s. 5d. The total voluntary con- 

 tributions thus amount to 7,770,992 15s. Id. 



The statement was regarded as comparing most 

 favorably with that of the previous year, and as 

 showing that up to the date of closing the ac- 

 counts the claims of church work had more than 

 held their own under the strain of the various na- 

 tional calls for generous assistance in other direc- 

 tions. A total increase was shown of 306,558, 

 two-thirds of which belonged to the funds con- 

 tributed to central and diocesan institutions, and 

 one-third to the fund administered locally ; but the 

 increase in the former was the more marked, be- 

 cause those funds amount to 2,250,000, while 

 the local funds come to 5,500,000. An examina- 

 tion of the figures in detail will show that the 

 following interests advanced in the year under re- 

 view, roughly, to the extent of the sums given in 

 round numbers: Home missions, 50,000; foreign 

 missions, 58,000; educational work, 13,000; 

 philanthropic work (including a sum of 189,757 

 for nursing institutions, convalescent homes, 

 and cottage hospitals), 94,000; the maintenance 

 of parochial clergy, 24,000; and general paro- 

 chial purposes, 139,000. Regret is expressed by 

 the editor of the Year-Book that the two items in 

 w r hich a decrease is shown are the societies for 

 assisting the poorer clergy and their families, 

 13,000, and the funds contributed for elementary 

 education, 57,000; also that no way has been 

 found to estimate the support given yearly by 

 Church people to the Bible Society and other inter- 

 denominational agencies. 



The average income of the English beneficed 

 clergy, as returned in the Official Year-Book, is 

 249 per benefice. The lowest average is in the 

 diocese of Sodor and Man, 249. The highest is 

 in the diocese of London, 420; the next highest 

 in that of Liverpool, 341 ; and the next in that 

 of Manchester, 357. The funds for the aug- 

 mentation of benefices would amount to about 

 3 each if they were equally distributed. 



By a parliamentary return made early in the 

 year, it is shown that the total price of the 

 advowsons sold under the Lord Chancellor's aug- 

 mentation act from the time it came into opera- 

 tion, Aug. 15, 1892, to Dec. 6, 1900, was 234,859. 

 The money has nearly all been invested with the 

 ecclesiastical commissioners, but is under the con- 

 trol of the Lord Chancellor. The funds may be 

 used to augment the income of benefices in the 

 gift of the Lord Chancellor up to 400 a year. 

 Since August, 1892, 2,086 had been distributed 

 to 14 benefices in grants made to meet equivalent 

 grants. A balance .of 2,867 remained as yet un- 

 appropriated. 



The total income of the Episcopal Church in 

 Ireland for 1900 was 525.458. The investments 

 in securities amounted to 7,627,424. 



