Alaska field notes, v4469
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J.M. Verbeek 1966. Journal 53 ont some of the meat. Among the herd I noted a white animal which Steve thinks is a Dall Sheep because he saw horns. I think it was an allino Caribou, because it carried its tail straight up like a Caribou. We had dinner at 03:00 and went to bed very tired. 25 July Beautiful sunny day. Roger, Art, Steve, Jane and I went to the Caribou carcasses to photograph some of them and to carry out more meat. As it turned out several animals were still alive and they had to be shot or pithed. There were also two lambs, one injured (Steve shot it) and one healthy one. We again spent the whole day skinning and carrying meat. When we left late in the afternoon, +19:00, there were still some 10 animals to be carried out. I am afraid that much meat will be left - the field to not. Most of the Caribou were skinny, except for one bull, who had about 1/2 inches of fat on his buttocks. All bulls and cows still had velvet on the antlers, the tip of which were still very soft. The animal which I helped skinning had very few worlds I noted. Before turning in I checked the Pectoral nest. 26 July The fog which rolled in last night blew away by the very strong wind which blew all night. By about 10:00 the cloud cover disappeared and from then on we had fine sunny weather. In the afternoon I hiked to a large lake S. of camp. I walked all along the W shore, a 4-5 m high sandy bluff with