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than when we came off but it was a stiff pull against roind and tide the latter running strongly into the inlet. We got on board also but found the vessel would not start until the next am.
From the natives I learnt that Reindeer are extremely abundant in the Kowak Munatog - they also say that Mt. Sheep are very numerous up the latter strain which they report as []strikethrough]] fringe?? [[//strikethrough]]
having a very swift current and flowing between high Mts (mountains). The Kowak they say is slow and flows through a flat country.
Both rivers are large. These natives had muskrat skins quite a number of which were melanistic - this being the region where this variation is quite common among these animals. Parry's marmot skins, the Whistler, Ermine - Black & Brown Bear. Lynx - Wologrome - Wolf - White &

Red fox skins marten. Beside Reindeer Mt Sheep skins are all brought off to trade beside Horn & Rabbit skins.
Porcupines are said to be very abundant in the inner shore of the inlet. White fox skins are only taken along the coast.
In one boat I saw a lot of smelts freshly caught. Kotzbees Gull and the Murras are about the only birds seen here. The native semiaks here as well as of Caperim of Wales and Cape Krugenstem have almost exactly the same flam as in Norton Somud and also along the intermediate shore the shape holds the same. At this place however the paddles blades are very short and rounded as follows. [[left margin]] [[image of paddle]] [[//left margin]]. The largest blades I have seen among the eskimos. I noticed upon several semiaks close to the bond the figure of a man.