and reached Ft Chippewgan May 18 at about 3.30. after some breakfast we went along the shore a short distance and went to bed for a short sleep. Got up about the middle of the forenoon and having gatien a few provisions at the store we went up the shore about a mile (east) or made a Camp in a favoronble place for work and set out some traps. May 19. We made a fairly good ing catch of Evotomys & Peromyscus and set out another line of traps. Also ate some Snares for rabbits which are abundant judging by signs Even a pair of mallards about a lake near, which were evidently nesting. Red squirrels are very common Ft Chippewgan. May 20. Took a good series of Evotomys and a few Peromyscus in wire traps. Shot a Lepus on the rocky hill near Camp and a muskrat in a small piece of marsh. Raining all day In the afternoon we made up our specimens and collected a few plants. There are very few small birds here. Our camp is pitched on the shore of the Lake which at this point and for some agstance either way is high and socky and fairly well wooded, with spruce birch. Aspen poplar willow Dunkasean Pime. a good deal of Juniperus grows on the rocky hills and also in the woods and a great deal of mountain cranberry & a ground ezar ( ) the latter mainly on the ledges.