encountering off the inner (180 most island. The seal mear as baked today by We - We was first rate, lacking the disagreable flavor (due to its being killed while rutting?) which the flesh of the same carcass has had thus far. She has some Eskimo trick for get- ting rid of that flavor. Meat is too scarce just now to permit our giving this seal away, as we should like to do. My weight today before dinner 176.5 lbs. 29 January. Monday. 13 NW S; C9, N4; O, N4; O, N4; O, N2S 1/2.16 15; 14; 15.5; 10.5; 5.8. min, 4.5; max, 19.1 W To Pee wahtoix's Point, 4 mi walk. Midday. Calm in lee of cliffs beyond the river gorge. Mac went out along north shore and back our land - Reports ice out just beyond Pro- vision Point and between the islands south of us. Says that he has not seen open water so far in at this time of year before, since he has been here. Finished reading Norton's geology - Am enjoying Bret Harte these days. Developed a box of plates. Noo karping wax reports that