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Larus glaucus & L. kotzbuer [[kotzebue]] with a few L.- sp. the Black wing tipped species I obtained at Plover Bay & which is found all up this coast.

A large snipe with a note
like Maerorhamphus griseus
flew over & yesterday four
Numenius borealis were seen
Stercorarius pomatorhinus is common at sea off here &
S. parasitiens & buffoni along shore here are not rare. Ordemia velvetina was
common along shore about
rocky points & was often
seen perched on shelf like
points-

This a.m. Prof. M. obtained a fine specimen of a White
Fish from a native just as
it was taken from the net The nets used here are
about 3 to 4 fathoms & perhaps 5 fathoms long & one end is fastened to the shore & the other end is pushed far out its entire length by means of slender poles lashed together to the requisite length.

The natives catch Whitefish & Salmon Trout along the beach in this manner.

They had fishing lines of Whalebone & small hooks just like those used in Norton Sd. for some cod but I could not find out what
they catch here with them.

The dogs here are small miserable looking eskimo curs frequently with woolly hair as though they had been crossed with some other variety of dog They vary from black to White.

The natives had their boats sleds & canoes upon [[strikethrough]] afo [[/strikethrough]] four posted framework & they had a row of low underground
caches turfed over & with the

Transcription Notes:
numenius borealis is a bird. Pomatorhinus is a species of bird native to Asia living in the Himalayas, might be referenced in line after "Numenius borealis".