Hoeman, J. V. 1964--Aleutians 16 down near Punik Islands. Soon he appears and harnesses 4 dogs to central tow-line of the simple sled while I hold it, harnesses made of young muk-luk. We go east while a stout and even shorter 22 yr. old cousin of him or his wife, Vincent Savoukok, takes Win and battered shotgun west out on the ice of the Bering Sea. So my fist dogsled ride is on sea ice full of gaping cracks and low wet spots with my eskimo driver shouting chigg-chigg for right or huh-huh (left) continually. I'm amazed at our speed, we fairly fly. An open pool has common eiders and red-throated loons, by one little creek where we stop is a whale rib longer than I am and I nearly get dunked when a piece of rotten ice breaks with me on my way back to the sled. At the Abraham River we stop and he says he'll meet me back at Cape SEEvoo we'd passed earlier. In a pond area I see and walk up close to 14 emperors, 1 cackler, and a pr. of lesser scaup. Back at village I talk to his wife, Helen, slight with dark long hair who is fm. s. side and remembers Otto Geist (Clarence collected for Geist about 1928). She knows birds well, and even Sharon, the teenage daughter who speaks best English, saw 2 bald eagles last year. He said he has 4 kids and 2 adopted--the little girl, Darlena, is so white she must be one of the latter, will be 2 in Sept. Another girl is typical fat eskimo, must be 12 or 13. They have wolverine pelt Anchorage furries, which Green sent them as prize for having cleanest sealskins in all Alaskas, but they seem more pleased that their name was broadcast over KICY Nome announcing them as winner. I saw some of their seal skins--very nice, but I'm sorry to hear the price is jumping on them and that Norwegian sealers are seeking to kill in N. Pacific and Bering Sea waters, having depleted the N. Atlantic.