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May 10th, 1915
Rensselaer Harbor
Back at the old camp,
and will make another
try for records tomorrow.
Wounded four seals
today. Blood all over the
margins of the holes; lost
tem all. Sammie got h-
live just in time to grab
one by the tail with his
teeth and hands but he
was not strong enough to
hold him.
Tracked a bear to a
seal igloo where he had
killed a seal and eaten
it. The crowd looked as if
he had his whole family
with him, blood, bones, and
vis-à-vis meat everywhere.
Saw many tracks near
no fresh ones.
Sammie did some awful
clewing today. One seal remained
to long on the ice that Sammie
got up and looked at him.
Just then my dogs struck
him. The traces caught in the
heels of the legs and he landed on