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noted and as soon as the fawns were fairly dead the women skinned them.

They said if they sold us the skins of these animals that the next moon the whole herd would die so we had to be content to secure the antlers by paying extra.

The young fellows then stripped to the waist & each shouldered a carcass & brought it to our boats getting our things on board prepared to start off. Just as we did this the old pensioner came up & showed an empty knife sheath & the captain presented him with a new one at which he uttered an exclamation of pleasure & tried to seize the Captains hand smiling & laughing at the prize he had secured. His hands were covered with a skin disease (psoriasis) & so his salute was declined. We embarked & just before 8PM. reached the vessel. Here & there on the mts all the way up we [[crossed out]] had seen [[/crossed out]] saw snow banks.

I secured a fine salmon trout of one of the Deermen today which the latter killed in the creek near his camp. We have had some of these to eat here today & they are delicious, almost equalling the King Salmon.

I shot a Rodger's Fulmar just as we approached the ship. I secured the following short list of Reindeer Chukchee words today.
White Bear ūḿ Kâ 
Brown Bear [[strikethrough]] Kān gûn [[/strikethrough]], Kēń gãn
Mountain sheep Kĭ tĭ păd lĭn

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