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Appendix 12Illunch. I walked down mud flats some way: saw 10 NorthernRavens together, Terns, SemiPalmated Plover, Yellowshank,Sandpipers. Reading Galswort/:y + Service's "Ballads of a Bohemian" aloud.WEDNESDAY 30 JUNEVery cold: horrid in the morning. After lunch walked down mudflats: 3 miles slow going + heavy up river. Saw huge Buzzard orEagle very serrated wing tips: saw nest of white headed sparrow(?) on ground with 4- young that Canon Hester shewed me.Mosquitoes bad in bush. Only silver willows mud + a few sprucealong river: good sized lake. No visitors tod,!),. Eskimos mostlygone. Looked in on the patient in the convent Mrs Cook: cheerful + enjcys theNbut owns to a feeling of loneliness when the September boat pulls out + none willcome for 9 months. SqualJy evening.THURSDAY I JULYCold very autumn wind blOWing. Walked down to M. P. barracks to change books.Made assignations with Mr. West (H B Co inspector) + Capt. Meln!>,re tocome + see us. Aft. explored bush behind wireless rough pathsmore or less cut down. Found Whisky jacks. nest with young.Saw many marsh marigolds-Pyrolas-Bearberries + longed togo on + on for ever: scrub of spruce + alders + bogs. Back at 3.Visitors dropped in Mr Bon'!Ycastle + West latter bought 105 dollars worthpictures. This Capt McIntyre full of Polar Bear + Whaling stories+ oaths + pictorial language + at the same overlapping Mrs.Whitaker pale proper washed out. He anti-missionary: however weeach towed one + all went well.FRIDAY '2 JULYStill overcast but warmer. Walked down river seeking semi - Palmated Plover nestcd not find it. Called on Wireless re: cost of telegrams home 30 cis. a word.Called on Parsons + fixed to go with his motorboat toDestruction City. Aft. up stream behind the lake but mosquitoes unpleasant.Archd Whitaker called: pi!>, he's so narrow + against R Cs. Told us of rapidsat Sinclairs Pt in 1st 25 miles beyond La P. House.SATURDAY 3 JULYFound an Irishman called Tyrell who took me aX river in hiscanoe lesson in paddling. We took out white fish from nets:lovely green creek winding up + away into the unknown that isalways beckoning: a whislg-jack ftitted aX. Tyrell is Irish: surveyor +trapper: married to squaw. Then to Canon Hester for stamps + a cup oftea w. Mr. Coghlin a man w. sprained ankle + Blake a Galwqy man + ex- H B C.All very down on HBC's methods in lust years surJy to own customers + keep freeTraders out. Talking of Shingle Point white whales + Eskimos: makes one long togo there. Mountains a lovely soft blue these days. Aft. down river+ found semi Palma ted Plover's Nest 4- eggs on ground amongwillows after 4- days stalking: bird flopped + feigned brokenwing within 2 yards of me. Canon Hester came after supper totalk + look at sketches: sadly absent minded time he went out.We saw midnight sun from chapel window it never touchedhorizon.AklavikSUNDAY 4 JULYMass began at 8 with its melancholy drone. I went out withTyrell to fish nets in 17 ft. canoe: onJy 2fish. He has a theorymosquitoes are sent to preserve ducks which wd otherwise beexterminated by natives. Ai; it is mosquitoes on June loth madehim knock off rat trapping. LoveJy sun'!Y dqy X breezeto drive awqymosquitoes. Canon Hester + Archdeacon W to call after lunch. To Eskimoservice in C ofE. Curious show: Canon Hester squeezingtunes from small harmonium: women in bright cottongarments + hoods. greasy black hair tattooed faces childrensquealing + crawling about: men in white + an Eskimo deaconread lesson Tik tak tok it sounded like: we sing hearty hymns inEskimo-Tasingait Tasingait-Archd. Whitaker preached short+ rather useless sermon with interpreter on men doing hardwork + women light work. "When I want wood I don't send mywife. Mr Fry ditto. Mr Geddes ditto. What I say to you I say notonly with my tongue but by what I do." NOT quite themissionary spirit somehow. Pharisee. Canon Hester has it nearerthan anyone: simple childlike identifies himself with them.Evening the '2 lay brothers called: bearded one a German beenin N 31 years nearly forgotten German.MONDAY 5 JULYFreedom. Dr. cut Gwen out at 10.30 + away she hopped downto see the Pioneer (Northern Trader) who had come in in thenight. A hideous night of Gregorian chants + barking huskies +heal)! booted Priest coming in for Dr. Mother Superiors' feast daythey seemed to be chanting all night in melancholy tone "andall the afternoon. and all the afternoon." Aft. unpacked newstores in HB warehouse + saw the Whitakers set offingas boat + scow withhuskies Indians a tent a stove mosquitoes sluggish progress. Eveningdown toMission house hot sultry dqy. Gwen's foot seems sound as a bell.