13"4: INTRODUCTIOISr OF DOMESTIC REINDEER INTO ALASKA. 



Now WO will have to support them until we can let them have a herd, 

 and that may take years. We can not throw them off without giving 

 them what was promised, so you will kindly remember to send them 

 a supply of food, etc., next sununer. Secondly, we have the two Lapp 

 families up there. You will also kindly remember to send them a 

 supply next summer. 



AVe are getting along O. K. 

 Respectfully, 



Wm. a. Kjellmanx. 

 Dr. Shelix)x Jackson, 



WasJiingtoiu D. C. 

 P. S. — The gold fields between Golovin Bay and Port Clarence are 

 turning out wonderfully well. 



RECEIPT OF W. T. LOPP FOR PAYMENT IX FULL FOR DEER BORROWED 

 BY LIEUT. D. H. JARVIS. 



Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska, 



August 19, 1899. 

 Received from United States Bureau of Education, through Dr. 

 Sheldon Jackson, general agent, 714 reindeer, being payment in full 

 for the 292 reindeer borrowed by Lieut. D. H. Jarvis, R. C. S.. Jan- 

 uary 25, 1898, for the relief of the whalers at Point Barrow, together 

 with the natural increase of said deer for the years 1898 and 1899. 



W. T. Lopp. 



REPORT OF LIEUT. A. BUHNER, COMMANDING U. S. S. THETIS. 



U. S. Revenue-Cutter Service, 



Steamer Thetis, 

 Port Clarence, Aladri, August 4, 1899. 



Sir: In accordance with instructions from the Department to per- 

 form work in the interest of the Department of the Interior in trans- 

 portation of reindeer from the Siberian coast, which deer, I am 

 informed, are to be purchased b^^ you, and, as requested by you in 

 your letter of July 18, the U. S. S. Thetis cruised as far as Cape 

 Serdze, on north coast of Siberia, endeavoring to purchase the animals. 



A landing was made at Whalen on the morning of July 2( », but as 

 sickness prevailed in the chief's family, trade was stopped, as is the 

 custom of the natives. Proceeding further along the coast, wind from 

 north and weather thick, a stop was made at Stockan evening of July 

 20, Avhere natives visited the ship and reported no deer nearer than 

 some 10 miles inland. As a thick snowstorm prevailed and drift ice 

 was coming in from the north, I could not comnmnicate with the 

 herders, and proceeded further along the coast, leaving Itchan morn- 



