42 INTRODUCTION OF DOMESTIC REINDEER INTO ALASKA. 



for St. Michael. A fine day. During the day we passed a iuinil)er of 

 .small boats, with miners, en route from Kotzebue Sound to Anvil City. 



July 25: About a. m. passed Cape Prince of Wales. The Bear 

 swung- around ]\y Cape Spencer to see if the bark Alaska was in Port 

 Clarence Harlwr. Not seeing it (afterwards it was learned that it was 

 there waiting for the Beat% the Bear continued on to Synrock, Anti- 

 sarlook's place, where we anchored at 8.30 p. m., in the lee of Sledge 

 Island. The supplies brought up from San Francisco for Antisarlook, 

 due him for his trip to Point Barrow in the overland relief expedition 

 of 1897-98, were landed. Upon the return of the boats, Antisarlook, 

 wife, and child, came aboard to go to St. Michael. While on shore the 

 officer learned that Asheuk, the Diomede murderer that shot and killed 

 Narilnick, a boy, at Point Spencer on the 15th and then escaped, had 

 left there only a few hours before. 



July 20: At 12.30 a. m. the Bear was under way. At 0.40 a. m., see- 

 ing a native camp on the beach, Lieutenant Bertholf went ashore and 

 found and arrested Asheuk. At 7.40 a. m. we got under way, taking 

 in tow the seized schooner General McPherson^ which we had over- 

 taken. At 10.50 a. m. we anchored abreast of Anvil City, the new 

 village which has sprung up in connection with the Cape Nome placer 

 mines. At 11.30 went ashore w^ith Lieutenant Bertholf. Our boat 

 got aground in trying to cross the bar at the mouth of Snake River, 

 and it was with difficulty that we got ashore. Met Mr. Redmyer, 

 assistant superintendent of reindeer, who had come down from Circle 

 City; also Dr. Kittlesen and Messrs. Andersen and Elliott of the 

 Swedish Mission at Golovin Bay. Learning that Mr. Kjellmann was 

 at the mines, some 5 miles away, 1 sent a Lapp with a note for him to 

 come at once to go with me to the' reindeer station. Mr. D. H. 

 Smith, United States deput}^ marshal and the principal owner of the 

 schooner General McPJiers(»i^ in company with an officer of the Bear^ 

 went aboard the schooner and arrested Capt. J. B. Neilson, who had 

 stolen the s(;hooner in the fall of 1898. Jeremias Abrahamsen, whom 

 I had brought from St. Lawrence Island, was given his discharge from 

 the Government service and allowed to go ashore. Messrs. Kjellmann 

 and Redmyer came off for passage to St. Michael. At 7.40 p. m. we 

 got under way for St. Michael. Nome (Anvil City) is a conglomera- 

 tion of tents, with half a dozen frame houses or shanties, and two or 

 three iron warehouses in process of erection ))y the transportation and 

 trading companies. The ocean front is stakcnl out with claims for 

 from lo to 20 miles. We saw men panning out gold on the beach in 

 front of the most densely populated part of the place. Some Hne 

 teams of horses were being used in hauling. 



July 27: A beautiful day. At 10.15 a. m. anchored at St. Michael. 

 The place had greatly improved since I left it last September. The 

 cutters C hrav)!^ Bus/t^ and Ntoilrah were in the harbor. Went ashore 

 with the first boat, and at once proceeded to military headquarters to 



