94 INTRODUCTION OF DOMESTIC REINDEEK INTO ALASKA. 



January 10: At 7 ti. in., 0"-. Clear, with lioht wind from the oa^st. 



January 11: At 7 a. m., —27 . No wind; clear. Mr. Hendricks, of 

 Weare, stopped at the station en route for St. Michael, where he expects 

 to meet his sistei- and two childien, and take them over the divide on 

 dog .shnls, and hnive them at Nulato. Mr. Hendricks also came to see 

 about the removal of Kev. Prevost's herd of deer from Golovin Bay 

 to the Yukon. 



January 12: At 7 a. m., —24*^. Clear and cold all da}', with ver}^ 

 lioht wind fi'om the west. Part of the men Avho went to St. Michael 

 on the 3d instant returned. They reported that it took tliem but two 

 days to make the trip to St. Michael and that Mr. and Mrs. Hatch had 

 suffered no inconvenienc(\ ])ut htid had a pleasant trip. Isak Nikkola, 

 whih> out huntinii', fell, tlirowin*:;- th(> oiui over his siioulder; it struck 

 the frozen uround and discharg-ed the load of No. 8 shot which passed 

 through the olecranal process of the idna of the rioht arm, also all of 

 the tleshy part of tlu^ el])Ow, and part of the internal and external con- 

 d3des of the humerus; 24 of the shot then lodoed in the anterior part 

 of the thit^h of the left leg. The wounds were dressed by Dr. Gam- 

 bell, Dr. Kittlesen assisting in the operation. Word was received 

 to-day that Mr. Kjellmann was much better. 



January 13: At 7 a. m., -35°; at 11 p. m., -3(P. Clear and still all 

 day. The freighters returned from St. Michael in the afternoon. 

 Martin l^rought from the camp the forward prong of one of the antlers 

 of a sled deer. Through the flattened part of the prong, and al)out 

 seven inches from the head of the animal, was a bullet hole, a})])arenfly 

 made by a shot from a 40-caliber riHe. No one can account for it 

 in any other wa}' than that someone was trying to get fresh deer meat. 

 Still the herders have heard no hring in the vicinity of the lu>rd. 



January 14: At 7 a. m., —30'-'. Light breeze from the east; cloudy 

 all day long, with a few flakes of snow. 



January 15:- At 7 a. m., —17°. No wind; cloudy all day. 



January 10: At 7 a. m., — 1() . Cloudy, with a light breeze from 

 the west. Two La[)landers with deer left for St. Micluud for pro- 

 visions to-day. More miners are coming dow'n the river, hauling their 

 provisions on sleds, en route for C^ape Nome. As only the man with 

 the October mail has returned, we are expecting the Novem))er and 

 L)ei'eml)er mail carriers back every day. There are fondexi)ectations 

 of getting letters from the States when they do come. 



January 17: At 7 a. m., —12°; at noon, —15°. Wind ])lowing, with 

 fine snow from the southwest, cloudy all day. Magnus Kjels])urg 

 started for Golovin Bay to get the deer ])elonging to Mi'. Prevost and 

 Moses, the native. Dr. Kittlesen, who has l)een stopping here a few 

 days, left for Unalaklik at noon. 



January 18: At 7 a. m., — 22 . Cloud3% with fine snow and wind 

 from the southwest. One deer which had been with the party going 



