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compassion on the poor wretches who live surrounded by the falling huts of friends & relatives who thus lie dead in their own houses or strewn along in the ravine close by as the famine struck people dragged the dead out before dying themselves. There were about 100 dead lying in the vicinity of this village.

All the utensils of the people lay about in the houses- When we landed a pair of snow buntings were seen and [[strikethrough]] a pair [[/strikethrough]] one ♀ shot The native children (two of whom were nice looking little girls) ran eagerly off to show my man their nest which contained 1 egg & was taken Along the shore were many Kittiwakes (Kotzbues) and I saw the burrows & [[strikethrough]] two [[/strikethrough]] one crushed spec. of the largest species of arvicola so common at St. Michaels-

A ♂ Argnatella -sp? same as on Seal Is ? was seen & heard utterring a hard metallic trilling note a little like that of the Semipalmated Sandpiper. After the ♀ P. nivalis was shot the ♂ flew from rock to rock and kept uttering a loud plaintive call continually till we left. Some cormorants (violet green) were flying about.
 
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The gale still holds on from the north and we remain at anchor till afternoon and at signs of the breaking up of storm started across for Plover Bay-

Capt. H, Prof M. & I went on shore in AM. I tried to secure a photo. of the people but there was too much wind. The natives here talk so much like those on E. Shore of Norton Sd that I could make out considerable of their conversation. 

Transcription Notes:
. Writer may have intended to write a male symbol as opposed to a female symbol.