1 October. Sunday. (103 8a.,29,8°;12m.33°;4h.33°;5p.32,8°;12h.28,5°. max 43 S,S.1;C,S.6;O,S.5;O,S.3;S,O. Jot was going out this morning after seals but quit it up when he saw how suddenly the barometer had dropped this morning and within an hour a heavy south wind struck us and white caps were running in our wake. We all have stayed in today. I need- ed rest after my two days rowing. Ahuingak made an anorak for me from some fine khaki that Mac had. Kahda learned to write his name today and he made some drawings for me of a man in a kayak harpooning a walrus and of two lemmatics chasing a polar bear and her cub. He is a bright boy. 2 October. Monday. 8a,29°;12m.30°;4h.26,8°;5p.28°. 12h,27°;min 25,8°,max 30 C,S.E.2;C,S.1;S,O;S,S.E.2;S,S.3. Climbed thermometer still and got readings of max 40.6°,min 21.3° for past week. Thin film of ice over the exposed rocks of the slopes, due to the alternate freezing and thawing of the past week, made rather hard walking. Saw some tracks of hares, but no hares. Oddie killed a large bull walrus in entrance to harbor. Mac and Jot were on hand and Captain Comer went out in the flats and helped tow in the carcass to shore; but when it came to dividing up the meat, Oddie and his friends got two-thirds of it although they were not really entitled to nearly so much, by account of the work done by our three men in securing and cutting up. Such is life up here. "The Kablemos have lots of things, they don't need this" is their evident opinion. Well- noblesse oblige. Ford filled up with ice this evening.