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The deer were loaned to mission stations where Eskimos were trained 

 to care for them, the superintendents of the stations reporting to the 

 Bureau. Since 1894 the government has appropriated money to con- 

 tinue this work, and in 1910 Lantz estimated there were not less than 

 23,000 reindeer in the herds. At the end of five years a number of young 

 deer equal to the number loaned each mission is to be returned to the 



PIG. 177. Barren Grounds caribou, Rangifer arcticus. 



The Life of Aniyials.) 



- (From Ingersoll, 



government. At the end of each year of faithful service each appren- 

 tice is given two deer so that in five years he can start in business 

 for himself, but he is then allowed to kill for meat and skin only the 

 surplus of males, and he is encouraged to raise deer for carrying United 

 States mail, passengers and freight. He is not allowed to sell female 

 deer except to the Bureau of Education in order that the business may 

 not get out of the hands of the Eskimos. 



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