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the same season at the Diomedes

Pomarine jaeger from Pt. Barrow & others as wallas Larus glaucus seen near Herald Is.
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Got under way in the eve and stood along the coast until rounding the SW. point we saw a few native houses perched on the point of a bluff and running in about 400 or 500 yds off shore dropped anchor as we did so a few natives were seen squatting near the top of the bluff behind some rocks. Soon after coming to anchor Capt. Hooper Prof Muir & myself went on shore and found a number of ruined huts of natives who perished in the famine of 1879-80 in one house two lay coiled up + in another 8 natives with their utensils & scattered about when they were last used. These huts were on the slopes of the hill on the southerly face and from a few rods from the sea up to the top of the hill. The houses were framed of inward arching whale ribs & jaw bones with now & then a piece of wood. These bones were arranged like the logs & posts of the native houses on Norton Sd but were (as would be expected from their materials much ruder - and are covered with a layer of rocky soil a foot or two deep. Standing at various points on the hill side were the usual styles of caches the corner posts being each made of a whales jaw bone. Upon the very top of the hill were two summer houses the dwellings of the people who came running down to meet