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Shong. 1921 Hazelton B.C. - 959 ft.
Fri. June, 17. Hot and clear. Clambered up later in the day. Went on a big circle from the town out to the high-tension bridge, suspended 200-ft. above the Bulkeley River, then New (?) Hazelton, hence turned via South Hazel ton.
The deadliness of one of these towns is only excelled by the deathly stillness of the next. Coaxed a Chinaman at New-Hazelton into giving me a meal for 35ยข, my sole fortune, which he did eventually. It was better than the clams, and I saw very little. Sounded three Wood Peewees at different places, two Red Squirrels, one one male Theller, Yellow Shatked went off his red moustaches. Saw on Sparrow Hawk?, one Kingfisher, and a Paleated Woodpecker, which flapped across the burned timber far ahead of me. Their call is exactly like a Theller especially when well-weet by distance.
On a small Swamp-bake near Hazelton I saw and shot at, two Great Northern Jours, an old bird with a smaller one, but my only response was to have her stand on her tail, flap her wing, and laugh derisively, after they had swum under water out of range. No. 6's evidently don't phase them. My six traps in the woods yielded three Peromyscus and two Sorex. Those in back of the barn, seven Peromyscus, mostly young. Took a bath (?) and worked in the cabin all afternoon. Saw about seven broods of Pinjfeet Goose, which few time in trying to decoy me away.