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He told us that there were plenty of mammoth bones up the Kūgūrūk river especially up 20 to 25 miles from the coast where it flows out of the mts - At this place there is a hot spring and near by are two lakes in which the bottoms are covered with tusks and mammoth bones. In the bed of the stream are many others. [[?]] This native (a malemut) called these the bones of the Kilignwuk and said these animals live under the ground & come up to the surface & when they breathe air they die & their bones are thus found where they died - He said that the Kilignwuk burrows out river beds by burrowing along near the surface & creating a deep burrow into which the water runs from lakes & makes a river. He reports most of the people absent trapping marmots in the outs, near the hot spring and wished us to make a trip there saying it would require but a day to go and one to return.
After we finished questioning him he asked permission to stop on board saying he was afraid to go on shore in the dark for a little boy had been buried not long ago at the mouth of the River and he did not dare pass the vicinity in the night. He was so earnest about the matter that he was allowed to remain.