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Appendix 1 209great sand banks. Had some difficulty getting in to wood pile5: 30 tied the boat with iron ropes to saplings which wereuprooted once or twice. Fine sandy beach: M Police hadsports. Found a semi-palmated Plover's Nest with 4 eggs.TUESDAY 22 JUNECold + sunless. Reached Arctic Red River 4:30 AM + went ashorefor an hour at 5:30. Squalid place: Indians in tents: looksoutonLesser Ramparts from the Arctic Red River. Great lumps of dirty ice onbeach an acre or two. RC Mission + PO in one. Indian women 'sf aces.Bishop. conversion!! by About II 0' c turned up the Peel River afterpassing Indian Houses. Peel R. very attractive: narrow withdeeply working black mud banks where ice action hollowed outsoil + great bits dropped in with a splash every now + then:leaving the poplars + firs with roots exposed growing on bank top or bending overwhen completeJy undermined to their last fall. Young Poplars fresh green:blue Delphinium in woods. Tied up at noon at woodpile: impossibJy steep crumblingplaceso slept from 1-2. Then we went on up the winding Peel every now +then green swam1!Y bits opened out + the land of our dreams the Ratdivide + snow touched Mts. in sight. This at end of a long straight reachafter passing Husky R. on our R. was Fort Macpherson: on topof high bank facing fine range of mountains. Behind the settlement aswamp + a lake. Yellow anemone. G putting foot to ground.Eskimo namesmurderer ~ Ikagenawitness = Panuyakdead man = Ulukshukwife = Nalugiakwife = HanergakWEDNESDAY 23 JUNEWoke at 7 to see a range ofmts. on our L. + we corkscrewedround till it was on our R. + came to Aklavik at 8. Prosperouslooking settlement (comparative-how our standards havealtered in 3 weeks). Astonishing crowd of Eskimos on mudbeach: tents schooners over 100 tethered huskies. Eskimowoman incarnate broad smiles fur lined hoods long cottonshapeless dresses + shupacks offor or skin: babies tightly bound onbacks in hoods women waddle toes turned in stooping forward.Men in parkies trousers + high shupacks. Spent AM seeing RCConvent English mission + Hudson's Bay manager Mr Parsonsafter securing the Doctor who prescribed 2 weeks delay forGwen's foot (tendons) + rest: accommodation? rather difficultRC best but more cut off + 4$ a day. Cold wind + evening shower. Adrunken fighting lot of traders. Sold my 38/- boots for 15 dollars (62/6) + Wewere introduced gaiJy to the murderer. The la"l)lers seeking information:O'Connor (defence) s'!)'s to Eskimo: "Why did you kill him"? Eskimo. "Hewas mad with me." O'C "Why was he mad?" E. "I stole his wife." Simple smilingpeople shaking hands all the time. Our guide Lazarus came on board +had a talk: looks a good fellow. Arranged for canoe 90$.Evening to Eskimo service very deep voices tuneful heartyEskimo service.THURSDAY 24 JUNEA1clavikCold. Eskimo trial. Extraordinary show. Murder. O'Connordefended: Howatt crown Counsel. Jury of 6 scally-wags. Eskimocrowd: Accused Ikagena came from ¥.rH Fairy RiverCoppermine way fine face. Interpreter very dark + handsome.Not guilty verdict after guilty of manslaughter: quite apparent.A farce: our verbiage + theirsimplici!y. Satfrom 10-12: then 2-5.30 then7-30-9. We attended all day in dining room. Dr. plastered upGwen's foot. I saw Eskimo dance at Mission House endingabout 2 o'c: weirdest thing ever seen + honest to primitiveman. A King William land Eskimo long haired man of the woods + lkagenadid a seal dance with drums I sided flat with a handle + woodenstick. They bend forward + shuffle legs sideways moving everymuscle like elastic: curious groans hisses roars: very nearborderland of man + animal: imitation of seal's flipping movements.Took one back to cave men. Women also danced one with herba~ unconcerned strapped in on her back. Saw one old Eskimo with 2Labrets. Saw Stefannson's wife an old hag. Their smiles + greetings +handshakes are too attractive. Home in chill daylight with Mr. Howattat 2 AM afterglow in s9 + thry s'!)' its gets no darker now: most uncan'2Y'FRIDAY 25 JUNEA1clavikChilJy but some sunshine. Packed + wandered round + got a photo or two.Lunch all our party deserted to feast at convent. I was solo witha U.S.A. trapper who is taking home an Eskimo wife for ajaunt. He has been 14 years in the country: says its very hard tofind 2 men even 2 good men who can spend a winter togetherwithout quarrelling. Last job he was alone nearest neighbour 40 miles. MrHowatt introduced me to Capt. Macin!yre a rough sort of loosemorals. He warned Capt. M. that we were ladies + he was toremember it. I said: "What a pity you told him that it may