26. childs 1958 29 July Petroyea River, Cape Sabine, Alaska Beluga or Porpoise. Species seen were: Arctic: Tern & young, Glaucus Gull, Red-throated + Arctic Loons, Pacific Eiders, Ald. Squaw, Red-breasted Mergansers, Western Sandpiper, Kittiwake, Spind Long-tail + Parasitic Jaeger. It soon turned to rain and remained rainy and overcast. After a late supper I spotted a large Black Bear across the river or maybe upstream. We dressed & took after it. As luck would have it, the bear decided that this was a good place to sleep and we came up 16 paces from it and Pete shot it — camera still upstream. Pete thought it was a Black Bear but later measurements showed it to be an old grizzly but certainly a very black one. 30 July Rain again and overcast. We didn't sight a plane in this weather so took the boat upstream and started to skeletonize the bear. got 3 legs done when the plane arrived. It took only one trip to bring the rest of the gear from upstream. After the plane left, letters read, and lunch, we went back to the bear, set 2 old Eakin's dead-fall traps for Wolverine or fox. Pete went & shot marmot traps and I finished scraping out the bear. It was raining in earnestly