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[[image - sketch of Summer house, East Cape.]]

As we approached the shore the houses each with the dark rounded entrance gave the appearance of a group of cliff swallows nests scattered irregularly about - we counted 54 houses which must contain at least 250 people and I believe more while another village of nearly equal size exists on the north side of the Cape. ruinous underground houses the walls built up of stone and covered with earth were seen in the midst of the other houses but I did not find whither they live in them during winter or not. many pits showing former building sites were seen - Only women & children with few old men were seen in the place all the men having gone off to the vessel to trade their whalebone walrus ivory & white fox skins which three articles with tame Reindeer skins are all that this coast produces except a villainous crowdog natives. Passing through the village we climbed the hill and saw a few snow buntings near the top and on the summit Prof M. said a Snowy Owl flitting over the median slope was seen a single Budstes flava and a small flock of aegiochus [[linaris?]] passed over the village while I was there. Upon the brow of a ridge above the village was

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Bird[[?]] to[[?]] lava[[?]]; cannot discern Budstes flava - a type of bird. aegiochus [[linaris?]] - probably some type of butterfly