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shows where fresh snow has fallen within a day or two. Leaving the coast traveling eastward and continuing high as far as can be seen. We started for Point Lay.

July 21
Arose in morning to find low land visible on the left all along- the high land of Cape Lisburne having ceased long before. Toward midday we came in nearer shore to the S. of Icy Cape hoping to go inside the Blossom Shoals. The high coast cliffs extending some distance N. and S. of Cape Lisburne disappeared before we reached Point Lay whence a low sand and gravel spit extends along the coast for north of Icy Cape and shuts in a shallow lagoon all along the coast line here - Back of the lagoons could be seen low rolling knolls and flat tundra.
Cape Lisburne is the breeding place of many Kotzebue gulls and murres like Cape Thompson-
As we ran along the shore just south of Icy Cape within a few miles three summer camps of natives with umiaks, Conical lodges with few in all about 100 people were seen. Before each camp a stout post 12 to 15 or 20 ft, was erected from one of which a native waved a shirt as we passed while a crowd of other stood gesticulating about the base - The Capt turned the [[corwire?]] in here just at noon wishing to land to get some magnetic observations but looking back the water was seen covered with foam under a rapidly approaching gale from the