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Prof M came back & reported finding a bed of limestone cropping out on the inland part of the hills.
Among the plants I saw were the common species found in most places thus far beside a beautiful Dodocatheon or shooting star of a clear purple. Small willows a foot high were seen in the most favorable places framing large light green leaves & long Catkins and with a fuzzy or hairy growth all along their stems. Other plants not noted before were seen & will be noted from Muirs Collection. About 7 pm, we started for Pt. Hope which we reached late in eve, and came to anchor behind its shelter the wind still blowing a gale. At noon today while at Cape Thompson the Belugas came close along the beach in a school of 50 or 60 mating one ♀ [[female]] would be escorted by 3 or 4 males crowding as close alongside as possible while the young one always kept close over its mothers back. They kept running back & forth here for a couple of hours or so. They lifted their heads half out of water each time they came up & moved very slowly as though looking about. As we neared Pt. Hope we passed the two whales I saw earlier in the day. They were not spoken. [[strikethrough]] but one was seen to be the [[/strikethrough]] The "Sea Breeze" spoken yesterday reports a good season.

July 20 - Pt. Hope - Laid off the inside (to South) of this place all the morning. The natives came on board, in am umiak among them being the Chief here who is such through [[thorough]] terror as he has shot 4 of them already and made the rest much afraid of him. During the trading when any of them rec'd a fair price and haggld [[haggled]] for more he would quietly take the goods & hand them to the man and 

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