Wednesday Aug 8. Got up at daylight and looked at my traps. Got 11 Dicrostonyx, 1 Lemmus and some Microtus and a young fox at the ken. Shot an Upland Plover. Picked up my traps and after a light breakfast we went back to camp arriving there about 7 o'clock. Spent the day working on specimens until the tide came up, about Havelock when we pored out to ek large sail boats which had anchored off shore about noon. Found them to be boats from Churchill manned by Eskimos and with I an interpreter, on their way back from Marble Island where they had been to trade with the Eskimo. It learned from the interpreter that we were but a short distance from the "Big River" and that a short distance beyond there I could get good ranquilts. I engaged one of the Eskimos to take one to where they were found and back Thursday Aug 9. It rained and blew hard during the night and every thing aboard was wet. In the morning it stopped raining and we started again, and about noon the mud changed to the north so we could sail no longer. We then pored ashore until the mud became too strong to proceed when we anchored. After passing several miserable hours on the boat over which the spray dashed continually theedo became high enough to enable us to get in close to shore. I supposed we must go further or to find Spermophiles, but the