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child
1963
Journal
4 July Barrow, Alaska
continued until midnight. By noon
there was 3 miles covering the tundra
5 July Dick went out in a.m. and flushed
birds off the nest that were covered
with snow. Dave & I went south
of So. Meadow Lake in p.m. by which
time most of the snow had melted.
There was no lemmings seen on the
trip or fresh sign on the snow.
A jaeger was seen & attack a ? Stella
Eider which fought back aggressively.
A jaeger was also seen & be feeding on
insects.
Dave is convinced now that the Eskimos
are having such trouble getting no animals
that the high occurred in January.
The sequence of events this summer
appears to duplicate 1962. Certainly
at this point there is little
indication of great events & some
6 July Jay Stevens & I put out good live plot
July Butter Manor taken to live plots. See
breaking myo, Brewer shipping no &
9 July Barbo Doland tomorrow.
7 July Ice well broken myo & Canadian Icebreakers
offshore.