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[[upper left margin]] an albatross (same as common in Aleutian Is) was seen as we came into the Bay the other day. [[/upper left margin]]

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27th left Plover Bay (Fog all day)
28th stopped at Diomedes (for am) N. Easter
29. passed Cape [[?]] pleasant N. Easter
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Cape Lisburne coming down when several flocks of King Eiders were seen passing south.

Aug. 26 Plover Bay
Raining heavily all last night but cleared up early this a.m. and the sky remained covered with slow moving clouds high over the tops of the mts.  A light wind barely rippled the surface of the water up the bay-- The steam launch was made ready and soon after breakfast, taking a couple of natives from the spit along for interpreters, the Capt. Doctor, Prof. M- & I started up the bay to visit a camp of Reindeer Chukkhci living there according to the natives. We steamed rapidly along up the bay past the mouth of Emma Harbor where Moore wintered in the Plover and on up the main arm of this deep glacier fiord.
On every side the mountains rise abruptly from the water in cliffs and sharp slopes of crumbling and jagged granite [[strikethrough]] T [[/strikethrough]] Whose summits made a serrated line 2 to 3000 feet above the water. The sides of the slopes are of a dull gray mottled with pale rusty spots here & there with now & then a whole rut of a pale reddish tint Everywhere the mts have an appearance of extreme age-- deep furrows & clefts along the sides-- Sharp ridges along which serrated lines of spurs and pillars of weathered granite show in a jagged line  This combined with the almost total lack of vegetation which shows the [[strikethrough]] un [[/strikethrough]] bare rock