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[[strikethrough]] I [[/strikethrough]] Our camp was ^[[in]] on the South Shore of Lake Mattasmuskeet [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethrough]] and during a day or two of cold we saw the arrival of the first Canada geese from the north. Flocks of the great birds came in high overhead ^[[honking and]] swinging around over this wintering ground and surveying it with craning necks before coming slowly down with set wings to rest on the  water. To the east [[strikethrough]] were b [[/strikethrough]] toward Stumpy Point were broad barrens. [[strikethrough]] gr [[/strikethrough]] with scattered [[strikethrough]] bushes [[/strikethrough]] stands of small pines and magnolias and thickets of pine, [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] gum and cane. The land here throughout is level [[line moving 'is level' to precede 'throughout']] [[strikethrough]] without [[/strikethrough]] with no hills. Through the courtesy of the Biological Survey we had permission to trap for mice and shrews in the wild life Refuge whose boundary was just behind our cabin and secured here some excellent specimens.