INTRODUCTION OF DOMESTIC REINDEER INTO ALASKA. 107 



ultimo, returned to the station last nig-ht, on account of the ice and 

 long-continued contrary winds. 



June 16: 7 a. m., 41°. Westerly winds; clovidy all day. C. I. Ward 

 and J. Sander, of Port Gardner, came up to the station this evening 

 and will remain over night. 



June 17: 7 a. m., 40°. Westerly winds; cloudy and foggy all day. 



June 18: 7 a. m., 38°. Westerly winds; cloudy and misty. 



June 19: 7 a. m., 40°. Wind southwest; cloudy and rainy most of 

 the day. C. I. Ward and J. Sander left to-day for home, having gone 

 to the Quicks la Bluff River for a boat which was left there last fall, 

 and which they ])rought down the river yesterday. 



June 20: 7 a. m., 42°. Westerly winds; cloudy and misty. 



June 21: 7 a. m., 38°. Lowest temperature during the night was 

 2 degrees below freezing. The wind was blowing from the east this 

 morning, but changed back to the west later in the day. Raining 

 most of the day. 



June 22: 7 a. m., 45°; noon, 49°. West wind; cloudy, with occa- 

 sional showers during the day. 



June 23: 7 a. m., 42°. West wind; rainy. News arrived that A . E. 

 Gardner, of Seattle, had come in on the first steamer and is now at 

 Port Gardner. He brings the first news. Two men arrived from the 

 herd, reporting all well. 



June 24: 7 a. m., 40°. Rainy. Mr. Kjellmann and most of the 

 Lapps went to Unalaklik to-day to hear the news. Mr. Kjellmann will 

 remain. 



June 25: 7 a. m., 42°. Bright sunshine in forenoon; cloudy later on. 



June 26: 7 a. m.,40°. Cloudy; strong west wind. Dr. Gambell and 

 P. H. Anderson, of Golovin Bay, started on foot for St. Michael this 

 morning. 



June 27: 7 a. m., 41°. Cloudy; wind from the east. 



June 28: 7 a. m., 41°. Cloudy; light west wind. Mr. Kjellmann 

 with some of the station people left for Cape Nome to-day. 



June 29: 7 a. m., 45°. Cloudy. Few salmon caught in the trap in 

 front of the station house. 



June 30: 7 a. m., 45°. Light west wind; cloudy and misty. Some 

 seining done. 



