60 INTRODUCTION OF DOMESTIC REINDEER INTO ALASKA. 



I give the location and other particulars of the missionary stations 

 and schools in the regions mentioned above: 

 1. On the Arctic are located the following: 



With herds of from 1,000 to 5,000 at each of these stations, there need never be 

 any fear regarding tlie whalers who are caught in the ice before reaching Bering 

 Strait on their way south. If they can not bring their vessels to the protected har- 

 bors near by the missionary stations they can at least escape over the ice and obtain 

 sure subsistence until springtime. They can load their vessels, in fact, with sup- 

 plies from one of these stations and on the breaking up of the ice in the spring con- 

 tinue their whaling voyage. 



2. The following missionary stations are located along the coast from Bering Strait 

 to Unalaska, in the Bering Sea: 



3. The missionary stations on the Yukon are the following: 



While the stations on the Arctic Sea are of vital importance for the safety of the 

 whaling fleet, those on the Yukon are of vital importance for transportation in the, 

 winter time, and besides the missionary stations there will doubtless spring up 

 many camps of miners from the middle Y'ukon on to its highest sources and also 

 along all of the tributaries on which gold may be found. It is too much to expect 

 that miners will raise herds of reindeer, or indeed that reindeer can possil)ly be raised 

 in the immediate vicinity of a mining camp, but the missionary stations removed at 

 a safe distance from these villages can produce hundreds and thousands of reindeer, 

 together with skilled natives who have learned to speak the English language and 

 have acquired the manners and customs of our people. These will become herdsmen 

 and teamsters for the mines. 



4. The Aleutian Islands. One of these, (20) Unalaska, has a missionary estab- 

 lishment, Methodist, with '^ missionarii's and 1 < Jovernment teacher. 



