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The snow on the ice although there was a little snow on
the west side.
Just before we rounded into Roger Harbor
there was a shout of "Panmook-a-uck"! She
had run my gun on an iceberg and Doitea man-
aged to put a shot into him on the top of the
ice mountain. He floated down when
the bear dashed down the other side. The
gun loved all of the dogs and allowed them to
play with the wounded animal.
We were up all night making stews &
sausages. The next night we started up from
this Strait & left the cache at Cape PanThorpe,
as follows:
Red fish, 23 cans 1104 lbs.
Blue " 6 " 288 "
Piscuit, 7 cans 350 "
Total 1728 lbs.
We came back on the same month.
Recovering the Sound proved to be hard as
the dogs commenced to give out. Before last
two & almost giving out. She were said
that the Japanese was disagreeing with them.
When we arrived at Community we
found that the bear skin had been dragged
off a canoe by the bear.
We landed home at 10:30 am on Tuesday
December 16, 1913.