Viewing page 54 of 106

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

the Mammoth remains which are found at times in the Mts. & on the tundra here, he said the natives did not have any stories of ever seeing them alive but that they thought they live at present in a large hole under the ground and that now and then one strays away and comes up to the surface and after snuffing the air he dies and in consequence his bones are found about small lakes or in depressions in the ground.
Sept. - 26 - Nothing of Interest
Sept. 27 -
In the morning [[Messr's?]] Kilchauns + Naldron from the other shore came over and remained to dinner afterwards. I went back with them to purchase some toys etc to trade with the natives, returning home in my [bidarkie?]]. I saw a great many geese flying north along the coast and also a flock of about 50 swan all moving towards the North. Asking the reason I was informed that they go about 15 miles north of here around a point and then follow the course of a small river and from there to the yukon and over to the interior of [BritAm? maybe British America?] then southward. When I came back to the redoubt I found the gentlemen of the A. C. Co all waiting for me on the beach with the news that two Muklucks of seals had been caught near the Redoubt during my absence and that I must hurry if I wished to see them. I found them a almost pure white,large, heavily built animals.