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Wednesday July 22 The wind blew hard
all day and we had no man
on the island. It being little more
than a bare week I have no
observations worth recording.
Thursday July 23 Toward morning
the wind went down a little
and at 5 am. we made preparations
to start and got away shortly after
breakfast. We crossed a narrow
channel through the wind
still blew quite hard and had
Breakfast. The island being well
wooded, had many bison on it and
old squaws. We next made
for more houses and entered
a channel lying between two islands
up which we sailed for several
miles then turned nearly at right
angles and made another quite
long passage to the main shore.
The wind was now almost en-
tirely stopped. We then entered a
beautiful bay (nearly enclosed by
blows) on the eastern shore, in
which, several Indians including
Capuk Plane one of the most
repeated of the Dogoris) have
log houses. We then turned east
ward into a narrow channel
passing a small Indian
burial place, of which I took
a photo and after proceeding
up it for some distance, camped
Friday July 24. We left camp about 7 o'clock
and soon entered the main part of the
lake and travelled, though the wind
was rather high until about noon when
we were obliged to lie by on account
of wind. Went up the shore half
a mile or so to the houses of
some Indians, where the late
Bemah, one of the most enterprising
of the Dogoris formerly lived
we were not able to go on until
nearly 4, when we started and
travelled until 10 camping on a
small island near the house of
"Little paper" a Dogrib. I set
our net and took a white fish
before dark. Many red throated &
Pacific Loons were seen during
the day.