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Sept - Kugururok River & 
13th Leave Kotzebue Sd

Early in the morning Prof. M. & I got off in the surf boat in a cold drizzly weather with a [[freshening?]] [[mind?]]river & entered the river passing a deserted village of 4 houses at its mouth which our interpreter told us had been deserted during last winter because a woman had died there. A mile & a half after the mouth of the stream where the water shallowed so we could get no farther we found the new village of these same people a few of which were [[strikethrough]] still [[/strikethrough]] here & seemed to be a poor miserable set. We tried to advance up the stream to where the natives pointed out as a deposit of bones but the shallow water in the creek & the dense bushes along the bank balked us and we were forced to return - taking a tusk & some pieces which out interpreter had left here last winter.
These people told us that several [[unimak?]] of Cape Prince of Wales people left here yesterday [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] morning on their way home from their yearly cruise along the coast here . A couple of hours before we left our anchorage at Elephant Pt. an unimak load of these people came along with a lone sail made up entirely of fragments of old  [[?]] deer skins sewed in innumerable pieces