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Code
1958
General Account
6 September - boat -
1335 - 2 adult glaucous gulls
1342 - 9 glaucous gulls, 2 of them juveniles.
1350 - entering Mililisktorik River
(David says it connects up swiftly
with the Kaplab. Hence it would
be possible to travel all the way
from Admiralty Bay to Wainwright
by a continuous inland water route!)
1400 - 6 black bellied plovers in nearly
complete winter plumage.
1409 - 4 black bellied plovers - name
condition.
1435 - stopping at an outcropping of
coal. Look on tundra. Local Dusky
geese sign on the upland heath.
high cutto polygons & local Lemmings
sign on the river terrace adjacent
to a bank covered with dwarf willow.
Willows forming usual loci for burrows.
1445 - traveling again
1450 - Stop at an old broken down
sled - loaded with coal. This is being
filled well slowly by the local Eskimos.
1535 - started back to Mesle River
village.
1544 - adult arctic loon
1550 3 " " - one shot.