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used for boots. Oftentimes they pound the salmon before chewing it, so hard has it become. There were no specimens of jade among the Indians, but there were some among the Esquimaux of Norton Sound procured from the natives of the Nonatook and the Kowuk R's. which empty into Kotzibue Sound. I secured some specimens including a knife and several drills from the Norton Sound people. The proposed Alaskan Bill, I am sorry to say, failed to become a law. My report of last work