January 6, 1927 I set traps and looked at traps that I set day before looked for a small squirrel that natives say is here but so far haven't been able to find it. At night I took my light and went hunting about 8 o'clock when I started down trail which leads almost direct west to Bates, having went along this trail for a long ways we took another trail which lead south through heavy timber went a long ways up this trail but never saw any thing so set down on log for a rest was rather tired & so soon decided to return in our way back which is a very hard climb in loose volcano ashes which does not afford very good footing. Had come quite a ways when all at once I noticed a pair of eyes up in a tree about 20 feet from trail which I took for an opossum so shot at it with shot pistol but it disappeared in tree I looked tree over then I seen it in another close by so shot it this time with 12 ga. shotgun with no 7 ch. shot but still it never came down so I began looking again