entered the wood but they could not find it. This evening at dark another mounty barked from the opposite side of camp. The bark is very loud + explosive. Yesterday some of the hunters drove a senn thru the forest near camp but the cover was so thick that we could not see it pass. One of the men threw his pen into its thigh as it passed with 10 yds shrin. This morning at daybreak at Deer creek a deer gun deer barky + said to be 3en dambara but this was mere guess. Very partly overcast with a wind from the east but the night was clear + cold. (11) Last night at dark some native hunters returned with an old & sambard game size the plain + dull of which they sold no. She was a nursing of the breeding birth season being gotten at in midwinter or else it is an all year affair. She had no huff glands at all but in the