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guillemots, and Least Auks and the gulls before mentioned were seen beside a duck which I could not recognize.

The water is about 38° today and a fresh Northerly wind.

We passed Cape Serge and 12 m. nw. of there we came to anchor off the village of Tapkan For from 1½ to 2 miles off shore it extended a belt of mush ice with heavy cakes strewn abundantly through it & which the steadily freshening N wind with the accompanying swell caused the cakes to toss & grind about so to prevent a boat landing much as I wished to land. The etire coast from E. Cape to this point is high – from 500 to 2000 ft. or over in barren hills.

We waited about just off a high point which lies just off the village of Tapkan and which we afterwards learned is an island with a small bay inside. After a time we saw a party of natives appear on the top of the island and then a flag was seen and soon we made out that the party we were after were there and ere long they were seen coming over the ice with their light skin boat and [[strikethrough]] br [[/strikethrough]] in a couple of hours they were alongside the edge of the ice which the heavy sea was tossing about in a rough manner. A surf boat and the dingy were sent off and a line thrown out to the men on the ice which they made fast to their skin 

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