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Monday Sept 29 Head Falls Creek
Another rainy evening day.
Mrs Cross retired to evening.
Tommy killed Rocking
Gailin brought back 3 mudcats
Are prepared to start on tomorrow
Mrs Cross saw ground squirrels
Tired, coming over.
Tuesday Sept 30
8 miles. RAV
We left about noon from
Barrangal to shoot a young goat
for meat. The went
unavoidably into the creek and
after about 4 miles came out
into a beautiful open flat
Saw a red fox, occurred on
+ against many plump kangaroos
collecting 2. This carried
a little ridge & Skeena water.
So we went down through the
scenic bascain to the other valley
we saw a good sized male
kangaroo on the opposite side of the
valley from ours, shot here
Skeena. Saw 4 more came here.
Rain I know in latter part
of afternoon, all very cold
in evening.
Saw chipmunk at head of Lake at camp.
Many ground squirrels. Lobo seen
at head of Creek. But none out.