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Found blankets rather cold and 1/56
heavy last night, after the sleeping bag, eh.
is so light with all its warmth.
Out for an hour on shore east of the igloo.
Inspected a tupic site well back on upper
beach which had evidently been used for a whole
season's residence years ago when caribou still
were gotten here. Big rock fragments, which
had rolled down from the cliff were taken ad-
avantage of to form a wall, small stones and
turf being used to stop up the openings.
Perhaps the site is not so old after all, for
the caribou horns used in making the food
cache (?) were shed horns that we picked up
and utilized on account of their convenient
size and shape. Crude residences, these
Estivino igloos and Tupics.
Photographed (19,1-8/35) the crew hoisting
a barrel of water from the brook on to the ship.
Several (9) seals were seen on the ice in
the southern part of the bay. After dinner Ben
and Taylor went out to try to get one. They
found that the seals had come up through
two (or more) holes which they had been
graveled (Fide H.C.P.) through the ice 7/3 of the
way across from here. Captain feet in one
of the holes and said it was rather
thin and that the sides proved the graving.
Ben shot a burgomaster gull, a handsome bird.
7 June. Wednesday.
Began to snow about midnight and
has snowed heavily all day. N.E. gale (8)
blowing this morning, but wind lessened
in strength after noon. Strong S.W. outside at 4 p.m.
Temp. min. 17o; 9a.27o; 12m.32o; 4p.29o 8p.29o
Wind seemed to be westerly outside,
sighing from sound of surf breaking
along the edge of the bay ice. A windy
stormy day. Apparently the little outlets