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is a collection of [[walrus?]] hide covered huts like those seen on St. L. Is. in the midst of which is a small frame building put up by a trader who was located here for one winter until his companion was killed by the natives since when the place has been occupied by the natives. This trader as well as many of the numerous vessels calling here [[hold?]] whiskey & the people are consequently poor & willing to sell themselves for alcohol and are poor though they get considerable whale bone and oil and walrus [[furry?]]. The scenery around the bay is fine from the steep mts rising from 1500 to 2200 ft abruptly from the [[wals?]] all about. The mts. are masses of small angular chip like fragments of gray granite and kind of quartz rock of dark greenish [[mottled?]] with dark- At The bay extends about 16 to 18 miles back into the mts [[strikethrough]]and [[strikethrough]] in two branches which unite just above our anchorage. In the night hand branch close to the junction with the other is Emma Harbor the [[winter?]] [[quarters?]] of H.M Ship Plover. The men began [[coaling?]] and I started out with my guns. (When we came in [[Murris?]], Pigeon & Crow [[guillements?]], [[Least?]] and Crested Anks. [[Glaucus?]], [[Kolztues?]] and Red legged Kittiwake gulls with numerous Violet Green Cormorants a few Som. V-[[nyra?]] a [[Pomarine?]] [[Jaeger?]] and one Raven were seen. A Larus-like [[argentalus?]] was very common and one [[spie?]], obtained out of