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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