INTRODUCTION OF DOMESTIC RP:iNDEER INTO ALASKA. KU 



should have some of the Laps. I would like a man with a family to 

 take care of the herd and a single man to make trips with me. That is 

 my idea, at any rate, to have someone with the herd and someone 

 who ean be absent. 1 will be glad to leave it with you to furnish me 

 with what you think I need in the wa}' of help. And if 3'ou have or 

 ean have made enough sleds and harness to give me a start, so I will 

 not have to wait to make these things when the deer are brought over, 

 I will pay for them and much appreciate the favor. I hope to do some 

 ])usiness up around Minook this winter with the deer. Will you have 

 anything to send up ( 



Am sorry I can not see you and have a talk. Will hope to see you 

 on your first trip to the Yukon. 1 will probably be at Wearc when 

 3'ou arrive there. 



AVith best wishes. 



Yours, truly, N. V. Hendricks, 



Wcui'c^ Alaska. 



Mr. Wm. a. K,tell:mann, 



!Siupti'lnten(lviit Rclndeei' Htatlon.^ UiwhiMik^ Alaxka. 



CORRESPONDENCE WITH REGARD TO THE HERD OF REINDEER FOR 

 THE ROMAN CATHOLICS. 



The Mission, Nulato, JA//rA /J, 1809. 

 Dear Sir: In reply to your inciuiiy letter dated Fe))ruary 27, ]-eceivcd 

 yesterday, ] may state that there is no real ground for the rumor that 

 we contemplate leaving Nulato and locating our mission somewhere 

 else, so little, indeed, that we are actually erecting a new building 

 close to the old ones, which is intended as a girls' school for next win- 

 ter. So if this were the only objection to the driving up the herd this 

 season I think it could be most easil}^ disposed of. But there may be 

 other difficulties in your way, about which I had better go by your 

 decision than j^ou by mine, as you know much more about reindeer, 

 Avhile I have never seen but one, in the London Zoological Garden. 

 As I informed Mr. Kjellmann last September, the location we contem- 

 plated for the herd was at a point near the village on the Shageluk 

 Slough, where we hav(> a good log house and where an abundance of 

 deer moss is to ))e had. On closer examination 1 find this point to be 

 much nearer Holy Cross Mission than Nulato, so much, so that were3''ou, 

 to drive the reindeer to that place I almost think it would be advisable 

 to go ])y way of iVnvik Portage and secure a guide in or about Kose- 

 refski. I also think the Lapps would have to depend on Holy Cross 

 Mission for direction and supplies. There used to be one of our 

 S. Doc. 245 -11. 



