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Dr. Kane
Arrived Littleton Island
on Aug. 1st.
Cafe Hatteras last of
Capt. Inglefields portively-
determined Deadlands.
Left cable and metallic
life boat in Life Boat Cove.
Built cairn on western
cape of Littleton Island,
called Flagstaff Point.
Looks Refuge or "a
beautiful Cove" just north
of Cairn Point, "a desirable
Landy from the World."
"For Inlet" later called,
Refuge Harbor. At at point
about one mile North he
erected a small beacon
cairn and burnt a K
with powder on the rock.
Wrote A.K. with a pointed
bullet on his cap, doing
and crossed it as a flag.
Harbor is in between a small
clump and a valley which
formed the inner slope of the
bay. Tracked it Aug 2 & th.