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places I found numerous droppings  wild geese showing that they visit this dreary place though probably simply in passing on their way farther to the North to the low land beyond the Cape just north of here. Just before we came to anchor this morning I saw a Red-throated Loon pass overhead winging its way toward this same low land the presence of which was also shown by the several flocks of Black-headed Turnstones which were so common in the ice as we came in this AM. On top of the hill a Golden Plover was seen also numerous burrows of Parry's or a closely allied Marmot and the tracks of White foxes were seen to be numerous by all - and to close the list of animals noted I may mention a strange little skrike which one of the Sailors found dead upon the hillside & brought to me (N.B. this latter is in alcohol)

On the top of the hill to the right as shown in sketch a post or staff was erected with a flag & a bottle containing a record was hung to it. The best guide to this place is the remarkably shaped hills which form Cape Corwin & which are about 5 to 6 miles to the right of [[strikethrough]] Corwin [[/strikethrough]] Clark River, and are shown in the sketch on the following page taken about 6 to 7 miles off shore to the East by SE. Everything showed black & dismal about & the rapid passage along 

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