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Journal.
a complete skull. Same no see now how
it is received down south.
At any rate, I packed that evening &
get off in late morning of 16 (Sunday).
Reached Lates Lake by about 3 P.M.
John Hoffie left an hour later on the
same plane while in the meantime
went to Opeilak & back. I got all his
jaegs + shuke information before he left.
Walked to first shuke nest & collected
pellets - then up alluvial fan to where
Harry Brower slaughtered some sheep this
spring. The skulls & bones were pretty
well ground up by bears. I picked up
a horn & a lame jaw but that was all.
After supper went in a boat with
Elk Clarke to the 2 jaegs nests.
A beautiful calm evening. The sun was
hidden behind the mountains. (It went
down at 6:30) At 10 P.M. a gibbous
moon came over the peaks at the S. end
of the peter canyon. This presented a
beautiful picture. The mountains - some snow-
capped, nice straight up from the sides of
Peter's, in the dim evening light they looked
cold & grey - the large orange moon hanging on.
This was magnificent. All this was reflected
in the lake surface so we proceeded back