 They also hunted game – including ducks and geese, reindeer, moose, and foxes – and fished for tomcod in the Tugur River to provide additional fare – the sled dogs, meanwhile, were given salmon and seal or whale meat.Lindholm employed a diversity of men at his stations, including fellow Finns, Tungus and Yakuts, Americans, Russians, Japanese, and Pacific Islanders.His right-hand man was Tornqvist (1862-1870), a Finn like himself, whom he had first met in Honolulu in the fall of 1853 when he had transferred from the barque "Souame" to the "Turku" as a harpooner.