44 INTRODUCTION OF DOMESTIC REINDEER INTO ALASKA. 



of their tent, unci preparations were made to proceed at once up 

 the Unalaklik River 8 miles, to the Eaton Reindeer Station. As we 

 left the ship a steady rain commenced which lasted until we reached 

 Eaton. A piece of driftwood was laid across the boat and a tarpaulin 

 stretched across, which formed a shelter from the rain. Under this 

 shelter Mr. Kjellmann and I crawled. Innumerable mosquitoes also 

 sought shelter luider our improvised tent. Mr. Kjellmann made an 

 ineffectual attempt to drive them out with tobacco smoke; failing, he 

 resigned himself to his fate and went to sleep. I alternated m}^ time 

 between lighting mosquitoes and sitting out in the rain. 



August 2: At .5 a. m. the night trip closed with our arrival at Eaton 

 Station. Dr. F. H. Gambell had given up our coming and had gone 

 down to St. Michael to meet us, and we had passed on the sea. Dr. 

 Lerrigo was awakened, and soon we had a good warm breakfast. 

 After breakfast the Lapps were summoned and the payment of their 

 salaries from July 1, l.SDS, to Jainiary 31, isyy, by the War Depart- 

 ment, was commenced. Thus with the signing of vouchers and 

 arrangements for the deposit of their surplus salaries in banks to their 

 credit, the whole forenoon was consumed. After payment closed 1 

 had the 12 children of the settlement brought into the schoolroom, 

 heard them recite and sing and made each the present of a picture 

 book. After dinner, supplies were got out for the reindeer herders 

 in the arctic, and at 1 p. m. we were off on our return to the ship. A 

 stop was made at Unalaklik to call on the missionaries of the Swedish 

 Evangelical Union, where we were presented with beautiful bouquets 

 of wild flowers and a box of tine radishes from their gardens. 



After our arrival at Eaton, in the morning, the rain ceased and the 

 sun (-ame out. When we started on our return in the afternoon the 

 rain again set in and lasted until our arrival at Unalaklik. AVhile at 

 Eaton Station a fishing party I'eturned with the seine. When they 

 were asked what success they had had, they replied, ''Not umch, only 

 a hundred salmon." At 5 p. m. Mr. Kjellmann and 1 reached the ship 

 with supplies for the overland expedition which was to drive a portion 

 of the reindeer })ack from Point Barrow to Cape Prince of Wales, 

 and also with ])arter goods for the reindecn- trade of the Thetm. At 

 5.45 p. m. we were under way for Nom(>. 



On the 24th of Dc^cember, 1898, Klemc^t Nils(;n had died at the 

 Eaton Station. 



August 3: At 1.55 p. m. we anchored abreast of Nome. The sea 

 was rough and ))adly breaking on shore. Captain Jarvis and Mr. 

 Kj(^llmann went ashore and got wet in the breakers. The place was 

 wild with the large returns 1)eing received both in the gulches and the 

 black ruby sands on the shore. 



August 4: During the morning Mr. John W. Kelly came aboard to 

 be taken to Point Hope, where he will make headquarters for taking 



