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the future render the necessary reports, accounts, etc. Subjoined 

 please find account of goods for herders, deer account, etc. 

 Very respectfully, yours, 



T. L. Brevig. 

 Dr. Sheldon Jackson, 



General Agent of Education for Alaska, 



Washington, D. G. 



ANNUAL REINDEER REPORT, GAMBELL, ST. LAWRENCE ISL.\ND, ALASKA. 

 By E. O. Campbell, M. D., in chaigo. 



Dear Sir: Permit me the honor herewith to submit m}^ third 

 annual report of the reindeer herd at this place, for the year ending 

 June 30, 1904. 



Grand total, 212. 



The winter has been an unusually mild one, and the herd did well 

 until the spring, which the Lapps report as a hard one for fawning. 

 We lost 14 fawns from various causes, and two were killed by dogs 

 from the village 15 miles away. Some of the fawns were from 

 mothers born in 1903, also from mothers only a j^ear old, born in 

 1902. 



When this is carried through the three or four generations, the 

 progeny become so weakened as to readily succumb to slight changes 

 or inclemencies in the weather, and the mothers' instincts seem not 

 to be fully developed, for they sometimes desert their offspring. 

 The herd is now on entirely new ground, inspected partially by 

 Per Larsen Anti and Sepillu two years ago. Near this place we 

 hope to find some means of erecting another winter camp. It will 

 be about 35 miles from the station, but in the center of a fine moss 

 pasture entirely unused. A move of some kind has become neces- 

 sary from the long feeding on much the same range and from the 

 increase in the size of the herd. We expect to kill a number of males 

 in July and August and experiment a little in the curing of meat. 

 Anti reports St. Lawrence Island as too marshy for the continued 

 lassoing connected with milking and cheese making. The marshes 



