Trickling of snow water down the gulls, 134 in the face of the bluffs makes pleasant music. Saw only two gulls, one raven and several snow-bunting. Chief first patch on front of store today. 9 May. Tuesday. Clear, cloudless. Calm or nearly so - Low, light fog in outer bay early. Went out around 9a. Temp. min 18½°; 9a. 29°; 12m. 35°; 4h. 37°; 8h. +27° Early this morning Ootah, alpselungun Kartmah (name ok?), with their wives and chil- dren and Peter's deaf and dumb ward, 14 Es- Kirinos in all, arrived from Umanak on their way to Itkaput, Cape York and Cape Seddon. I make out that they are going to stay here for some days and then distribute themselves down the line. Ootah says that he and his fam- ily are going to Cape Seddon for the summer, returning northward when the sun is down; this seems to me an odd arrangement of time, yet he says he has plenty meat at one place. The deaf mute is going to his sister at Cape Seddon. The Es-kirinos came on six kamatikles and have pitched two tupics on the beach near Pudtlac's igloo. They brought a kayak and a set-up kayak frame with them. These look like awkward loads for kamatiks. Two of the men went out hunting seals but saw none. Ootah's wife mended up my kamatik. Went out after dinner for 2 hr. walk, going to the lateral moraine on north side of the big (Cluett) glacier. Leaf buds on the willows are swelling; grass is putting out new leaves, green leaves really begin to show under the dead brown leaves. Spring is coming rapidly now, apparently. Let it come as fast as it will! The streams from the ice front of the Cluett glacier is so strong now that its gur- ling is audible a half mile or more away.