. Alaska and the Klondike. Qi ?J. 3i8 ALASKA AND THE KLONDIKE station was established, and named Teller Station. Inlater expeditions to buy reindeer, and through arrange-ments made with the Russian Government, reindeer wereobtained as a loan, with the understanding that the samenumber were in the course of time to be returned. There are said to be hundreds of thousands of squaremiles of what is known as reindeer moss in Alaska. Thisis a grey, hard, brittle form of vegetation which in thematter of consistency and palatableness ought to takehigh rank as a breakfast food. It is, however, a veryno
. Alaska and the Klondike. Qi ?J. 3i8 ALASKA AND THE KLONDIKE station was established, and named Teller Station. Inlater expeditions to buy reindeer, and through arrange-ments made with the Russian Government, reindeer wereobtained as a loan, with the understanding that the samenumber were in the course of time to be returned. There are said to be hundreds of thousands of squaremiles of what is known as reindeer moss in Alaska. Thisis a grey, hard, brittle form of vegetation which in thematter of consistency and palatableness ought to takehigh rank as a breakfast food. It is, however, a verynourishing plant, and upon this wild caribou feed in win-ter, the summer forage of the caribou as well as of thereindeer consisting of the green growth of grass andshrubs. The imported reindeer, coming to conditions similar tothose from which they had been brought, throve and mul-tiplied, demonstrating the practicability of stocking theplains and hills of Alaska with herds of this exceedinglyuseful animal. The Government in 1894, s
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