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that it could go down the next day he came by about
11:00, I invited us all to coffee for tomorrow (Sunday) morning
as he was alone.
November 12, 1933
The early part of the morning passed in cutting
Adamsons hair & in getting mine done about min
he & I went up to the mission the other did not care to go. We got there about ten & had coffee
after which Brother Leonard invited me to stay
for lunch which we did & it was excellent. The
mission has little to complain as the food good
good housing & their work not over strenuous.
After lunch we returned as I had too late to skin
and also in packing for tomorrow
November 13, 1933
Adamson Brass & myself together with four
Moto-Motos, two Kevin's & four or five Kunis went to the
river to fish & trap for minnows. As soon as we
get down & camp, we tried a hole by camp the same
as the one we shot second before but got nothing within
went down below where we left off the last time
& tried two more holes but we had little better success
getting only three or four small ones. The trouble was
that the river was too high and too muddy. We got
back to our camp about noon and sunk & set all but
two Kunis rode up. It came on to rain about two
and the river rose considerably. Turns first reddish
then grey. The rain stopped about four thirty and I
went out & set 13 traps.
November 14, 1933
I visited traps before breakfast but got nothing only
two spring. The rest of the morning was spent in with
Adamson prospecting we went down as far as we went yesterday and
we got an all that would make considerable less than a
penny weight. I took several pictures and shot a stag
but unfortunately they fell into the river & was lost; also I shot two Monarchella on the way back.
After lunch Brass left us returning up hill. The
rain held off till about four when it came on very
heavy the river rising faster than ever coming.