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ued in the general herd. At the end of the second year yon can give 

 them live more. I think it will be well to encourage them to remain 

 with the herd for three or four years, when they will have sufficient 

 deer so that two or three of the herders, by combining their holdings, 

 Can start a new herd. 



If, after a fair trial of a few months, a young man is lazy, indifferent, 

 or dull, you had better send him away from the station and give his 

 place to a more promising one. There is a constant sifting process 

 going on among white men, and the same process is equally needful 

 among the natives. 



I would like the first herders, especially, to be picked men, the ablest 

 and best among their people, as that class will alone secure the best 

 results from the introduction of the deer. 



Please read carefully the first letter of instructions given last year 

 and printed in the appendix to my report, which you have. 



For the present fiscal year, closing June 30, 1894, you can use the 

 Government fuel and kerosene oil. 



You will keep a kind, but firm discipline, and take special pains to 

 care for the Siberian herders, and make them so like the work that they 

 shall become weaned away from Siberia and led to settle down perma- 

 nently in Alaska. 



Very respectfully, yours, 



Sheldon Jackson, 

 U. 8. General Agent of Education in Aluslca. 



Mr. W. T. Lopp, 



Qaj)c Prince of Wales, 



