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E. M. Brock
1958
Journal
July 16 Pitt Point, Alaska
it so that we would come up to Pitt
to sample the drinking water. Therefore
today we filled sample bottles of drinking
water from two different lakes. Tomorrow,
an L.V.T. trip to a winter water supply
lake 10 miles away, will be made.
July 17 Checked traplines in the morning and
not a thing caught.
Left station site at about 1030 in an
L.V.T. with "Gus" driving and a passenger,
Jack Bittman. Tim and I were to go
to the winter water supply lakes to take
water samples. We traveled along the
coast [illegible] in a westerly direction until we
reached the old eskimo village site. Shortly
beyond these houses, we came upon some
lakes covered with about 500-600 flightless,
smolting pintails. We turned inland
and headed for the two large lakes. After
we sampled one lake we headed for the other.
In between these two lakes we came across
a [illegible] sabine gull colony of about twenty
nests plus one arctic tern nest and one
Pacific loon nest. These were located on an
island in a large Arctophila lake. (see page 2)
Looked at more lemming nests found
and still no dead lemmings visible.