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through the ice. They make a small hole then erect a few sticks to the windward upon which they hang a grass mat to keep off the wind and then sit on the ice and fish from morning till night taking from 10 to thirty and even forty pound cach. They have a pick to pierce the ice and a small scoop made of horn or bone and remain [[?]] attached to a handle about four or five feet long to take the ice fragments from the hole from time to time and a short stick about 3 1/2 feet long for a [[?]] with a slender pointed stick to aid in drawing the line from the water as it is generally longer than the pole. The following figures represent 1 the scoop; 2 the pole line and stick. [[drawing]] Their hoole [[?]] as represented generally have several points and are barbles so that when the fish is thrown on the ice or ground a single flap is sufficient to disengage it.
Nov. 4
Sleds are passing back and forth among the natives all the time now.
Wind very high from the north.
Nov. 5
Wind still a gale from the N. Nothing of interest.