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July 24th see Below

wheezing sound which broke strangely upon the still air with at short intervals the sharp crack of the rifle as it killed the stupid animals. There were hundreds of these walrus but the Capt.  the schr. said the ice was so thin that the blood of the animals when shot almost invariably broke up the ice cakes so to let the slain animals in & or lost so that he was having very poor success walrussing though there were plenty of the animals.

Starting on slowly we left the ice behind [[24th]] & ran in to the south of Icy Cape where we came to anchor just off a native camp of about 100 people who brought off but little beside winter deer skins & the skins of mountain sheep - also marmot skins (Parry's & the Whistler). They asked for Whiskey, Henry Rifles & cartridges. I secured some photos of the people but during the day (we anchored about midday) several whaler viz. Barques. "Sappho"; "Sea Breeze" & "Northern Lights" The Schr. "Handy" and in the afternoon the steam whaler "Belvidere" were all anchored within a couple to four miles & the latter close by so the Capt. came on board and among other things told us that the ice was remarkably light this season. He has been within 40 miles of Herald Is. nearly a month ago and thinks we will be able to penetrate to Wrangell Rd. He was within 8 or 10 miles of here the year Capt. Long was there & says its coasts is indented by deep 

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