Diary, 1914, of trip with Wilfred Hudson Osgood and George Howard Parker to Pribilof Islands, Alaska
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Saturday, Aug 29. Day rainy. Slept indoors in the morning. In the afternoon went out on reef with Dr. Nanna. We found a large number of Peckal Sawfishes. This is that a number. I skinned one of the smallest. Oxford and rap toward halfway Point. de slate forms Peckal Sawfishes, also a Sharktail and a Leak Sawfish. The Cutters near G. Islands, as far as we can ascertain made them safe. Late in the evening we received a message that we seemed to be taken aboard, probably in the morning Sunday, Aug 30. The Manning arrived from Shelenger in the afternoon. We closed up all accounts and business and went about. We left about 5 Pm. All the people went down to the East Landing, and although on an eclipse I started home on more sorry to leave the river friends with whom we had lived such a Cordial life. The Manning brought our mare we left in the evening