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"drink."
[illegible]
We return to camp by two p.m. and find that
the pastor is here and had been invited to dinner by
Mr. Stickney. The bottles are again in evidence, the two
and I clean up and sit down
sentlemen are enjoying their coffee and a smoke.
[illegible]
that he proposed joining today to
[illegible] is stranded and will remain overnight at [illegible].
One of the Karonak natives brings in some
graphite which occurs here in the hills. Other native
bring us other, turkeys and birds, i.e. guilimotos, side
duell and one small cretous bird something like a
snake. He purchases the fish and me skin.
At 3.15—Mr. White and I go to the plant
of [illegible] reality from Karent. From the sea up to 300
foot the hill bed of granite. Some of the ground from
that level cannot hit at 700 foot one find plant
is a dark shale. A coal bed the best we have
seen occur a few feet higher. Mr. White climbs up
to height of 1020 foot on the olivine basalt. Up the
basalt show takes a few specimen and of a white
land with horn column inclusions. On the
way down this two natives come with [illegible]
only us to dine with Mr. Bostin and the