Diary, 1901, of trip with Alfred Emerson Preble to the Athabaska-Mackenzie region
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June 6. Got up early and Took up my traps seeming a fair catch I Common specie That a fur 3 birds. Shortly after breakfast we Embarked and after proceeding a short distance passed the mouth of the Peace River which comes in on the left and uniting with the Rada which no small in暮mpan makes a broad rather Rapid River. We proceeded on down The Characters of the banks Himman much the same but slightly lower than where Camped. Stopped shortly after noon and after dinner went to Work skimming specimenings of which I had quite a lot on hand. My brother was unable & associated me and I put in the afternoon and after supper as long as I could see without finish- ng them all. A Pleasant day, June 7. Finished up all my specimens and between 10 and 11 o'clock started on down the river. After goin a few miles we put ashore for dinner at a Trapper's cabin on the left bank. On the spot I found skulls of Lynx, Mustela, Americana, Vulpes, Lutreola, Lutra and a wolf. The latter was muff for a specimen but I collected the others. A short distance below the left bank of the river became higher and as this place seemed a favorable one for collecting I concluded to Camp for a few days more. We accordingly put ashore at the mouth of a creek which formed our by the outlets of a lake about a mile distant. I put out a good line of Traps, While setting these I pushed over a large poplar stub in which I noticed a large Woodpickers hole and found it to contain 3 young Richardson's