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the evening were able to avail ourselves of the last chance to get 

 away aboard the steamer Elh, bound for Golofnin and Nome. The 

 r2th of October we landed at Nome. We arranged our business by 

 placing the case in the hands of Mr. A. J. Briiner, attorney at law. 

 A telegram which was received from the Commissioner of Education 

 with request to have the trial postponed until the summer of 1904, 

 was presented, but as the plaintiif and his law3'er were not willing 

 to listen to it, the trial was set for February 1 to 10, 1904. October 

 15 we boarded steamer Ohio, and the next evening we landed in 

 St. Michael. But all of our baggage was left aboard; though some 

 of it was valuable, we were refused the landing of it. The next day 

 the Ohio left St. Michael without sending a particle of baggage ashore, 

 and, as we have learned later, she took it all to the States. On the 

 promise of having either the Meteor or the Sadie to take us home, 

 we waited and waited for two days in St. Michael, and then suddenly 

 the bay froze up during the night of October 18. For Mary to walk 

 home was out of the question, so I had to leave her in St. Michael 

 while I walked home, a task which took four days to accomplish. 

 Mary was sent for later, when the ice became strong enough to 

 travel on. ♦ 



Immediately upon my return from Nome, October 22, I had cor- 

 rals made for counting and separating the herds. Ole Bahr was to 

 have charge of his own, together with those belonging to Okitkon, 

 Tatpan, Moses, Episcopal Mission, Stephan Ivanhoft, Bikongan 

 (Bigone), Moses Kautchak, Jacob Kenik, and the Government, 

 while the following herds were left in N. Bals care: Unalakleet 

 Mission, Nallogoroak, Mary Antisarlook, Kaktoak, Angalook, Sagoo- 

 nuk, Accibuk, Avogack, Amikr Avinik, Frank Kautchak, and 

 Sakpelliok. 



Since many of the fawns had to be separated from their mothers, 

 it was (juite hard to keep them in the difTerent corrals untU the work 

 was finished. In fact, we had to let all the deer out on the fourth 

 day of our work, whUe one more corral was constructed, that we 

 might thereby be enabled to do the work quicker. By having 

 three corrals instead of two only, as has always been the custom, 

 we could do fully twice the work in a day. It was a perfect success 

 after the third corral was finished. 



To rectify any mistake which possibly had been made in the first 

 day's count, we intended to recount the one herd after our return 

 from Kuskokwim, but for two reasons it was not done. First, it 

 was rather late in the season to lasso the female deer; and, secondly, 

 my time at home was short and well occupied by correspondence 

 and preparation for the trip north, etc. 



On the morning of November 9 I left Unalakleet in company with 



