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there when a small patch of earth had formed on the rocks often in patches smaller than ones hand some beautiful flowers among which the Anemone.

2 sp. of Draba, 2 sp. of Echivaria. One sedum (stone crop) and an Alpine phlox a Carex and a poa. All these plants are dwarfed but have beautifully tinted flowers. [[crossed out]] For [[/crossed out]] I saw a salmon trout in the water near shore.

At 10am I returned to the vessel and in the PM. the Captain and I went to the native village. The native women taking us there in their bidarra. We went through all the houses but found them the same as at St. L. Is. The women are tattooed as at this latter place and the language is nearly the same so that I could understand considerable that was said and could make myself understood more or less and the inflections of the verbs appear the same as at St. M. – with a slightly different sound to the vowels. Mixed with the Innuit which is the true language of these people are numerous words from the Reindeer Chukchee. I bought a few ethnologica and secured a couple of photographs and going back found Marmots quite common burrowing in the rocky soil of the spit close to the native houses. I secured one special shot upon a small wet grass grown flat a spoon-bill sandpiper, a black cap wagtail! and saw a small plover with a ring 

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