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Thursday Sept 3
McKinlay and the
Indian commenced away drying the
meat I took only and Meat was in
my traps and spent most of the day
hunting specimens taking a number
of birds found for small lunches
of Ptarmigan and collected some
also saw a number of birds which
I supposed had gone south. I
travelled over a large extent of
the barren country to the west
of our camp but found no traces
of Barrow found mammals. The
Ptarmigan undoubtedly bred here
as I found a family of young
with the old bird. The males are
found in small companies by
themselves. Saw a number of
returns and an old nest.
Showing they breed here. Only a
few golden plovers seen today
and no sandlilings. Rusty gackles
very Common and I saw a
large flock of Lapland Longspurs.
Jungers Ptarmigan observed.
The day was rather fine
Friday Sept 4
I am still alone in
Camp. Took some Ptarmigan and
albin specimens in the morning
as then spent the rest of this
day smoking on specimens as
considerable smoke had accumulated
made up a fine lot of
Ptarmigan. The day was cloudy
with a little rain, but the
wind had abated considerably
and had no meat ready
so could continue our journey.
The evening is cloudy with wide
cations I am.
Saturday Sept 5
I spent much of the
day packing specimens and giving
Things up generally. Took a black-
belied plover from a girk if Sickers
It was quite lean while the golden
plovers are generally got more. It rained
a good deal during the day.
In the evening McKinlay and
the Indian arrived with a load
of meat and have to return
tomorrow for the rest. The horse
was killed about 10 miles off and
through a very rough rocky