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[[crossed out]] Thos [[/crossed out]] I watched these fish bolt when swimming easily about + when darting hurriedly from side to side trying to escape + in neither case did I see them unfold or try in any way to use their great banner like dorsal fin which always laid closely folded along the back
Turning back I made my way slowly to the ship - noting on my way a couple of family parties of numerous borealis beside several Fringa alpina and one J. fairdii.
In the lower land were numerous Lapland Longspurs with a few snow Buntings about the bare rocky hilltops. [[Vtere?]] and there in favorable places were seen dwarf willows with bright green leaves - and along the creek beds a few Red Phalaropes frequented the small grassy flats which
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dotted its course here + there in the midst of the dry rocky character of the land elsewhere -
So barren + rocky was the ground that it was only here and there that a patch of moss could be found and with the gray + yellow lichens on the rocks were the only likeness to the abundant of mosses [[farther?]] [[within?]]-
Skulls of myodes + Cuniculus + traces of the large Arvicola so common at [[St. O?]] were seen-
One the side of the ravine through which the creek flows by our anchorage is an Eskimo grave formed by building an irregular walled enclosure about 6 by 3 ft in length + width + 3 to 3 1/2 ft high [[ontop?]] the thin flat pieces of sandstone so plentiful here + across the top lengthwise were laid two pieces of drift wood about 7 to 8 ft long + 6 in. in diameter. The only remains [[crossed out]] oth l [[/crossed out]] of the tenant of this