Alaska Catalogue and Journal, v4402
Page 187
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n. Cade 1956 General Account 6 July more patching dope. About 0200 we arrived at the "hill of 9 faces" and found a second gypaenie with 3 advanced young- all tizzlies. Continued on for another 10 miles and made a temporary rest camp on a gravel bar. While we were firing some tea and warming up around a wood fire, two moose came up on the opposite side of the river and stopped to look at us ca 100 yds off. Since our food was just about gone (and at that time I hadn't the vaguest notion where we were) I consented to Ben's shooting one of the animals - a yearling - for food. We took as much of the meat as we could safely carry in the boats - ca 60 lbs I left the rest for the wolves. The each ate a couple of pounds of meat before leaving that camp. We continued on around 0700, and arrived at the Colville Bar, mouth of [illegible], before noon. We looked at bluffs above the Kittik on the Colville, and then continued down river for about 10 miles and made Camp #5 at 1700. The weather had turned bad again and it was raining before we made camp, so we had to set up a wet camp, which was far from comfortable. Also the mosquitoes were very bad.