\)0 INTRODITCTION OF DOMESTIC REINDP:p:R INTO ALASKA. 



Many of tliem can not see why the white men should have anything 

 to say about what the Eskimos shoiihl (k), for the Eskimos were here 

 long ago. Arguing in this manner they resent the use of their young 

 men as reindeer boys; the killing of their dogs when chasing the deer; 

 the regular attendance of children at school; the punishment of dis- 

 tiu-bers or criminals; and, in short, any interference. Some are 

 awakening and becoming willing to be taught and led — a little way. 

 When asking one of the most influential men here if he would not send 

 his boy out to school he told his boy, " Yes, if the white speak strong" 

 (i. e., insists or urges). Let the authorities compel payment for that 

 $2,000 or $2,500 worth of bone taken under false pretenses, stolen, 

 and the miluence of the action will be very great indeed. 



ETHNOLOGICAL NOTES. 



Mr. Thomas Richards has done efficient service in the preservation 

 of order and instilling into the minds of the people a wholesome fear 

 of the Government — fear being at present if not the only at least the 

 most effective means of controlling them. Though the people here, 

 and Eskimos in general, have to pay large sums for "treatment" by 

 their native doctors, the only evidence I have that anyone is grateful to 

 me for the medicine given or surgical relief is the fact that they are 

 coming to ine more than formerly, and I see less of the native doctors' 

 charms worn. They do not carry anything for use nor perform any 

 manner of work, but I am sure to hear some one say, "No pay.'" 

 They have a custom here that the man who gets a whale shall give 

 grown people on the beach when the whale is landed one or more slabs 

 of bone, the value of which may range from $2.50 (a small slab) to 

 $450 (being the market price of 10 large slabs of whalebone), and yet 

 he will see that you give him some return. 



Everyone on St. Lawrence Island is assured of a house, food, and 

 clothes, if enough can be gotten, whether he gets them himself or 

 another one is the successful man. I^ast spring the whaling barken- 

 tine Morning Star, Capt. James Tilton, took four men from King 

 Island for the cruise. Returning in the fall Captain Tilton could find 

 no one on that island, and not knowing the cause he concluded to get 

 us to take them here or carry them on to San Francisco. Upon con- 

 sulting with our people four homes were ojiened to them and all winter 

 they fared as well as anyone here. From these men I obtained the 

 census of King Island, which shows 80 males and 57 females, they 

 having gone over the people house by house. In this connection it 

 may also be interesting to give a com}>arison of a few words from 

 eachlano;uao:e: 



