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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