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makes along the coast here. 

We found several native camp sites which they had occupied a week or so ago. Around each were scattered piles of decaying blubber in progression with bones and pieces of fur of dogs and foxes showing unmistakably that these animals had served as food probably earlier in the season before the ice left the shore here. I obtained a few ethnological specimens and when returning along the beach saw a ♀ walrus just floated ashore dead - also the skeleton of a right whale upon which the natives had been at work.

When we first landed I shot a solitary [[Zringa fairdic??]] and during the walk saw a member of Phaleropus fulicarius which with several snow Buntings made up  [[strikethrough]] the whole [[/strikethrough]] all of the birds seen on shore though King Eiders were numerous in large flocks on the lagoon as they have been all along this coast from Point Hope 

From Cape Lisburne thus far Stercorarius pomarhinus has been quite common with a few S. parasiticus. Sterne arctique Lorns glaucus, S. Kotzbue and Harelda glacialis with a few Colymbus (correct: Columbus) arcticus made up the list of birds seen here. The country here is barren sand and gravel upon which a sparse growth of carices and a few other grasses with only a half dozen flowering plants completes the flora of this desolate spot. How the country is farther back it is hard to say. At noon we were on board and stood up the coast meeting the

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