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our mooring - They had not put the
boxes of oranges, guns + walrus gun
aboard the large boat + they had
to leave them on shore in order to
get out again. Much vertically
columnar basalt along this
part of the shore. Deep, narrow
canyon discharges just beside
our moorage. Old igloo here.
Also caches of walrus meat
and canned goods belonging
to our Eskim people. Peter +
Sigdlu went ashore about 10 o'clock.
The little boat (the Clutts' work
boat) was almost wrecked in
the surf by the chunks of ice.
We pulled the tender out by means
of the powerboat + at high tide 2 p.m.
Hendrick went ashore by spooling a-
long the mooring rope and got the
men but left the boxes.
At about 3 o'clock Peter went