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flock extended for at least two miles in length were S. spectabilis with perhaps 1/20th of the no. S. v-nigra & [stikthrough]the[/strikethrough] about 1/4th S. stellerü all mixed in one great flock though the latter species appeared to generally keep in outflocks by themselves but often the three species were seen united in a single flock. A knife & a spoon [[strikethrough]] the [[strikethrough]] each bearing marks of ownership were found with the natives who came off & who obtained them from the wreck of the vessel which came drifting in here last fall just before winter set in- This vessel was boarded by some (3) seal hunters as she drifted along the coast in the ice & they found 4 dead bodies on her lying in the berths- The water was up over the cabin floor & the masts were all broken away. Messrs. Heming & Reynolds got [[strikethrough]] cons [[strikethrough]] a number of things here in spring when they were here which were taken from the wreck & reported others which we are after at present hoping to identify the vessel- The natives all assert the wreck they saw had a pair of deer horns fastened at the end of the jibboom- Capt. Owens of the "Belvidere" told us when we were at Icy Cape that the "Vigilance" one of the missing whalers had a pair of these horns thus placed when last seen. The morning we