Alaska field notes, v4434
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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