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Gilmore RANGIFER (REINDER) D
1931
June 7, St. Michael, Alaska.
There is a large Slaughter house
where hundreds of reindeer are
butchered annually. I think the
Roman C. of Nome owns the grounds
of the herd. The horns lie in huge
files outside the slaughter house.
July 12, Sevonga St. Lawrence D.
Bering Sea. Only twice or three
times have I been remain since
Come here on June 21. Twice. I
saw isolated animals, evidently
separated from the herd. They were
half-wild in their actions.
On the other occasion I watched
a large herd (some 900) flee
then a large snow bank to
higher ground. All used the beaten
trail.
July 19. Teller, Port Clarence, Seward
Peninsula, Alaska
This afternoon I witnessed, herding,
corraling and handling a herd
of several thousand reindeer by