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I was slightly seasick all day so did nothing but lie in the cabin

24th 

Early this morning the gale from the north increased and we stood along the westend of the island and came to anchor again in a small bay near the n western end of the island. On out way along the high rocky coast forming a series of cliffs we saw many sea birds among which the murre, pigeon Guillemot, Crested [[auk?]] and "Choockhie" were all plentiful. A few cormorants were seen and some [[kogouin?]] were quite common [[whieling?]] and skimming about in the high gale like a petral. Last evening a [[?]] [[?]] was seen pursuing one of these birds along shore. The bay in which we anchor was formed by a glacier of which phenomena Prof. John Muir
[[crossed-out]] [[illegible]] [[/crossed-out]] on board finds a [[?]] and evidence all along the shore in the sculpturing of the mountains and in [[terminal?]] &c

[note from St.M- the natives tell me that [[ravens?]] kill young fawns by picking out their eyes - white owls catch [[?]] hared by striking the claws of one foot into the hares back and then drag with the other on the snow or ground and flap the wings back until the hare is exhausted.

At St. M. I have seen a pair of swallows remain several says after the others were gone to wait for their young which were too young to start with the main body.
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The spec. of [[?]] [[?]] was taken at [[Hotham?]] inlet the first Sept 1880 by Capt. Hooper who took a Larus marinus