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name the articles he wished when the trader would show how much he would give (i.e. the usual price) but instead of accepting these natives from the north almost invariably refused at first and haggled for a larger price and in some instances took their things away. Perhaps after an hour or so the same man would come in with something else he wished to trade and so they continued making an exceedingly long winded affair out of every  bargain. After a large amount of call a water parkie was secured for me at about a cost of 50¢.

The cause of the difficulty in trading with these northern natives is that a great many whalers do more or less trading with them and [[strikethrough]]char[[/strikethrough]]pay almost anything they charge for their goods and thus give them an exaggerated idea of their value.

Agunapiak[[?]] stated that a Mahlemut had been shot a short time since by a Ko-Yukon indian north of Unalakleet while deer hunting.

During the day a number of drillbows (ivory) and various ivory carvings were brought me by the natives to trade some of which were very good-

These natives wear enormously large labrets made [[strikethrough]]s[[/strikethrough]] generally of some stone or mineral. One was obtained made of coal [[strikethrough]] anthracite [[/strikethrough]] Bituminous)and a number were seen made of quartz crystals ground down to the following size & shape 

[[image - sketch of a labret]]