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Journa 51
bumble bees, all of which were feeding on Pedicularis capitata,
this in spite of the fact that there were many other flowering plants
such as Dryas, Astragalus, Saxifraga and Anemone. Further
inland, on sandy ridges I saw Campanula imiflora, and
in the wet boggy spots, Pyrola grandiflora, Silene Melandrium
apetalum, Saxifraga
We kept walking to about
where the sand dunes begin. In one of these small ponds we
found there, we caught small shrimp like creatures, many of
which were copulating. The males had large greenish
modified appendages at the anterior end with which they
classed the females near the rear end. The females revealed
eggs in their abdomen and they lacked the modified appendages.
We collected several of them. On the dunes we saw several
Arctic Ground squirrels (Citellus gerryi) and several
flowering plants - Epilobium latifolium, Mertensia
We got back to camp at about 16:00 and
we made a snack. After writing some notes, I decided to take
a map till supper time. However, when I had barely snoozed
15 minutes Tom woke us up with news about some 50
Caribou, while the Eskimos had spotted about 2 km. S. of
where we had been all day. From our camp we could see
the animals - as black dots. One boat with 6 Eskimos
and an equal # of guns took off for the hunt. We decided
to follow in our boat. We landed near where we went on
land this morning and cautiously walked to the beach
along the river. The 50 animals reported by Tom grew to
about 300 as we saw more of them laying around
chewing the end. As we went closer still it became clear that