- May 17 - A man came up late last night from Pleasant Bay with a bear skin and skull and a freshly caught beaver. The beaver had unusually dark fur. He was about 40 inches long and weighed 35 lbs. It looked like a mammoth gopher and was the heaviest animal that I ever saw for his size. I have worked all day and there is more work on line yet. Miss Alexander bought the bear skin. - May 18 - We spent the morning working on specimens and in the afternoon we packed up. I killed an "old Squaw" at 200 yards with the rifle and in the evening I caught a place. About sundown we saw the launch coming around the point by Jackson's Cove and I didn't ever believe that the sputter of a gasoline launch could ever sound as good as that one did.