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cairn and mostly laid full length on ground & surrounded with a line of rocks as follows. [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethrough]] [[image - sketch of the grave]] The stick (see a.) was planted in ground or at foot of grave & projecting upward like a bowsprit 5 to 7 or 8 ft. The victims of famine were strewn about without any grave. I tried to secure a photo. of a group of women & children but the wind blew too much.  When I finished looking through the camera one of the men said, with a careless matter of course tone "He mucky now" meaning "will she die now? pointing at his wife he being sure that I was trying some big medicine on her. As we prepared to go we saw 15 or 20 flocks of Emperor Geese flying to southward over sea. A pair of Harelda glacialis were seen as were the glaucus gull and later in the day a Pomarine Jaeger.

Going off we started in afternoon for Plover Bay which became visible (i.e. the heads,) as soon as the haze cleared up in eve. The Asiatic shore being visible from St. L. Is whenever clear weather permits. I sat up all night with Cap. H. in the pilot house and watched our gradual approach to the bold rocky coast until in the morning about 4:30 am, [[strikethrough]] we dropped [[/strikethrough]] on 1 June 26th when we dropped anchor inside the spit about a mile below Emma Harbor and close to the coal pile left by the Russian Gov't vessel two years ago for Nordenskold and for some of which we are in here. On the spit 

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