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Sunday July 31. To Klappan River 7 miles
We spent the forenoon attending to
specimens and got away shortly after
noon, and made about 8 miles,
reaching the Klappan about 5.30
On our way within a couple of miles of
the Klappan we passed a strip of
spruce and sloughs, the head of
the Dekut. All the lakes about our
last camp were tributary to the
Dekut. We saw little of interest along
the route.
The Klappan is an crossing
place or about 75 yards wide
with a swift current. Its banks
are will wooded with Spined (sk?)
and Aspen, with a sprinkling
of Balsam Poplar. A good page
back the moral shrubs
We got the horses across in Thirty
Saw many Piro just before camping
Do see us that we burned elders grow
on the Spotizga about 50 miles up and
on Hocatgile Lake
On the divide between the Frances
west of Triggers Falls,
and the Kelly are Many Caribou family,
showing that many migrate. There are
some in the summer. Probably come from Hyland,
Caribou at 40 miles come north in
November. Return in March and April
at the head of the Kuskokwim. Some
of the caribou are resident. Others
come in in the winter.
Near the head of the Kantishna are many
moose, bull sheep & caribou
on the Hyland. 50 miles up at mouth
of Twenty Creek are moose, woodland
Caribou on the Barren hills. Black bear.
On the Muddy or Turnagain up the
Walker Creek 50 mile to Walker's Lake
there are goats & sheep all through. We
also about the head of the Muddy.
On Iset - a m which rise tributaries
of the Muddy and little Muddy and one
tributary of the Stikine. There are many
sheep, moose and caribou in summer.
Caribou leave the summit in November
and descend to the Stikine. The moose
are about Timberline in summer
descend in autumn, Muddy and
other rivers. Have gone in rounds and
sandbars in spring on Muddy and
Stikine and work back up the Metsa as
vegetation advances