10 Sat Aug 30-13. The ship left us this afternoon. We began work on the house site immediately after her leaving and dug hell about 10:30 when we ate supper which Mac had prepared for us in the cook tent, and all went to bed. I think every one of us slept more soundly than we had for months, sleeping in the open air practically, and dead tired too. Aug 31 Sun Sept 1-13. Mac called us this morning at six o'clock, and brought us all to with the information that the motor- boat had sunk in the night. Low ide had grounded and swamped it. Green & I got rowed out to it later in the day and bailed it out enough so that at next high tide it flooded. It is a perfectly beautiful day. I worked for a while today in a light undershirt and was perfectly comfortable. We worked hard and long today - Mac does the cooking in the cook tent and the rest of us and some of the eskimo's pick