112 INTRODUCTIUN OF DOMESTIC REINDEER INTO ALASKA. 



DR. SHELDON JACK80N TO LIEUT. D. H. JAR VIS, K. C. S., CONCERNING 

 REINDEER AT POINT BARROW. 



Eaton Reindeer Station, August ^, 1899. 

 Sir: I have the honor to respectfully request that when you order 

 south to Cape Prince of Wales the reindeer now at Point Barrow and 

 Point Hope that jow leave in the neighborhood of Point Barrow 100 

 head of reindeer for the Presbyterian Mission and 25 head for Ojello 

 as his personal property. Also that you leave with Ahlook and Elek- 

 toona, two Point Hope young men, each 50 head of deer as their per- 

 sonal property, making' 225 head of reindeer in all. These 225 rein- 

 deer I will replace from the Eaton Station. Kindl}" take receipts from 

 the Presbyterian Mission and the three Eskimos for the deer each 

 receives. 



Very respectfully, yours Sheldon Jackson. 



Lieut. D. H. Jarvis, 



Commanding Revenue Cutter Bear. 



REINDEER REPORT OF LIEUT. D. H. JARVIS, R. C. S., COMMANDING 



U. S. S. BEAR. 



United States Steamer Bear, 

 Port Tmcnsend., Noveinhe)' <?, 1899. 



My Dear Doctor: We arrived on the 1st, and were so busy in 

 Seattle that I could do nothing in making out a report. 



I did not bring any deer down from Point Barrow, as I had to take 

 a lot of people on at Kotzebue Sound, and the prospects were we would 

 be too long on the trip. After our experience in coming over this 

 time, I was not desirous of having the deer aboard so long again. I 

 did make arrangements to send all the surplus deer south this winter, 

 and think they will get there all right. I took one adult Lapp and a 

 half -grown Lapp bo}^ from Point Hope to Point Barrow and engaged 

 two good boys there, and also engaged William ]VIarshall to take charge 

 of the herd at 175 per month from August 13, He is a good man, a 

 thoroughh' reliable one, has lieen two years in the country, and I have 

 every confidence that he will get the deer there or I would not have 

 trusted him with them. I arranged for the 125 to be left at Point 

 Barrow and loO to be left at Point Hope, and I cautioned the people 

 that there nmst be better care than before. At Point Hope I tried to 

 trace the boys up a little. The Lapps wanted to come away, saying 

 their time was out and they wanted to go home. I believe I would 

 have taken them if bad weather had not made me get out. At any 

 rate, the ones that came down with the herd will work on to 

 Unalaklik. I tried to get to Cape Judge, and had sent a man there 

 to buv 10(» deer for me, T)ut the ice came down and drove me out of 



