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waterproof gu?s?in shirts and also waterproof sealskin boots of as good quality as those of East Cape. The men's porkins on with or without hoods but no ???de in either case. Their ivory conrings on of the most trifling & rude description and consist of small ??lt buttons toys in the shape of dogs + ducks + o?? swan ????. In one house a go?at rag doll in to 15 weks long was seen made of deerskin + this with a single ?????d image of a woman with child on her back all about 2 inches long + ?? ivory makes up the lisht of things see?- Rain mist + fog all day so I could not Secure a single photograph Aug. 7 Cape Wa?Skorm Went otn ohum in the morning to tried photographing in a fog then returned on board for my gun for I had seen some spoon- billed Sandpiper- Then going back I landed on the Cape which is a ??gged granite wrath??d into craggy ?pu? at the point and farther in toward the neck the granite is in a state of rapid erosion farming boulder by the loosening of concentne ?eales of pasty + gra?le granite, The seaward end of the Cape upon the highest part from the air ancient village s?li of which them munains but 3 houses eity prisent. Shise on all mound shaped with pits in the eirt? [earth?] + passage way depressions mining to Seaward while the numerous decaying fragments