27 June Portagea River Cape Sabine Alaska The vanguard of what turned out to be the large herd of July 6th last year was sighted near the cabin at about 1130. Solomon too off and with about 25 shots got 6, one of which was black, being almost completely molted. His activity and mine apparently turned the left flank of the advancing herd so that instead of crossing near our camp as they did last year they quartered the wind and moved generally eastward up the river valley and south slope. I went out To 2 Ridge and soon The cabin were all around me. Stay in the See of an outcrop and observed and took pictures of animals from 20 ft. The wind was from the north so that Caribou over the ridge toward Cabin Mt. were spooked. After shooting all my film and water for 2 hours I return to the tent for food and film and then returned, built a good blind at 1530. Only one farm was seen in 5-10,000 seen earlier. No avian predators were seen with the exception of H.T. Jaegers which might have