40 INTRDDTTCTTON OF DOMESTIC REINDEER INTO ALASKA. 



July 18: At juuhor off Point Spencer. Ininiediately after breakfast 

 went over to the cutter ThHis to confer concerning reindeer with Cap- 

 tain Buhner. There were 14 reindeer on the TJieth and the fodder was 

 exhausted. As there was a herd of reindeer on shore (which he did 

 not know) for the purpose of receiving- small lots of deer, Lieutenant 

 Hamlet and myself went ashore to hunt up Dunnak and Sekeogluk 

 (reindeer men) and make arrangements for landing. As the Thetl)< 

 was a long distance from the landing place, anchor was hoisted and the 

 vessel steamed abreast of the point of landing. Immediately after 12 

 o'clock the 14 deer were h^ided into two boats and Lieutenant Hamlet 

 and I again went ashore. The landing was made without difficulty and 

 the deer driven off to the herd by Dunnak and Sekeogluk. 



After dinner 1 went to the Thetis, and in company with Lieutenant 

 Hamlet went in search of a young Siberian from Whalen, known as 

 Chio. Captain Buhner needing him as interpreter in the purchase of 

 reindeei'. It Avas from two to three hours before we found and 

 secured him as interpreter. 



During the afternoon I took ashore and left in Dunnak's tent for Per 

 Larsen Anthi the following supplies: One sack of flour, 2 pounds 

 ground coffee. T) pounds of sugar, (> cans roast beef, 3 cans condensed 

 milk. 5 pounds ]>utter, and 25 pounds of salted pork. 



July 10: At anchor at Point Spencer. After breakfast received on 

 board, from the whaling bark Mermaid^ Frank Temple for transporta- 

 tion to St. Michael, he having assaulted with a knife and cut Crutchfleld 

 of that N'essel, July 0. He was placed in the fore hold in double irons. 

 Crutchfield also was taken on board and placed in charge of the surgeon. 



At 11.10 a. m. we got under way for Teller Reindeer Station, where 

 we anchored at 11.80 a. m. A native boat was loaded with supplies 

 belonging to Tautook, which had been paid him for services connected 

 with the relief expedition to Point Barrow in the winter of 1897-98. 

 AVent ashore with the 1)oat and inspected the Government buildings at 

 Teller Reindeer Station. They are already commencing to run down. 

 At 1.15 p. m. we got imder wav for Point Spencer, stopping at 1.25 

 to board the schooner Jesxie, of Los Angeles. At 3.15 p. m. anchored 

 at Port Clarence. Lieutenant Bertholf and the master at arms left the 

 ship to arrest As-sher'-ruk, who nuirdered Frank Boyd, a miner, on 

 the Noatak River, in th(^ fall of 1897. At 4 p. m. they returned with 

 the man in double irons. He was also imprisoned in the fore hold. 

 At 0.58 we got und(M- Avay for Cape Prince of Wales with four boat 

 loads of Eskimos. A native from the Diomede Islands, Noo-var-loo, 

 while drunk shot Arkiark, a Diomede boy, l)ut he escaped before he 

 could be arrested. 



July 20: Came to anchor at Cape Prince of Wales at 12.35 a. m. 

 Got up and dressed so as to be able to see Mr. Lopp, the missionary, 

 at that })oint. The sea proving too rough to land supplies, we la}^ at 



