Hoeman, J. Y. 1964-- Aleutians 15 minutes later we're landing on the gravel strip at N E Cape. Lots of people there to greet the few who get off and among them portly Lt. Col. Smith with slight gray mustache and warm, unsuperior manner--quite unmilitary. He crowds us into Dodge double cab AF pick-up to go up to the base and asks what those birds are on the way. Glaucous gull I say;they later turn out to be herring. We're assigned nice clean room in BOQ, have good chow (the whole place is connected up with hallways so they never have to go outside). 2 weeks ago all was winter with snow everywhere. This evening I walk aro nd while we wait to meet native "chief" Clarence Pungowiyl. Yellow wastail, old squaw, pintail, Golden Flover, Buddy Turnstone, Dunlin, W. Sandpiper, and Lapland Longspur I see. Raven, longtail jaeger, no. phalarope, short-eared owl, sandhill crane seen too. Clarence is stocky 5'2" eskimo who knows game birds better than others, but will take us out in boat tomorrow--weather permitting. We drove down to his village and brought him up I remember now. June 13, 1964 A day of events. After breakfast Win and I start to walk to native village, but the Col. overtakes us in truck with the rations, galoshes and parka he'd promised. See 7 or 8 ravens, and he tells us the eskimos believe they're reincarnated ancestors. the ice blocks us solidly so boating's out but Clarence says he'll take us bird-hunting by dogsled so we wait watching flocks of birds passing continuously cut over the ice (least crested auklets it turns out). See 2 pair of Emperor Geese fly by close and I walk out to a tundra pond where I see a pair of Common Eiders. Some fleshed out tusk-bearing portions of walrus heads lying around and in his boat (walrus hide painted white) a dead horned puffin nd least auklet he killed yesterday