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the caribou to some extent with fish caught in the lakes. They did 

 not suffer from lack of food, but experienced considerable discomfort 

 from being without fuel for either cooking or warming themselves for 

 a good part of the time. Jenness had some very interesting experiences, 

 and obtained a good understanding of the language, habits, folk-lore, 

 and viewpoints on life in general, such as can only be obtained by 

 continued intimate relations. During the winter he supplemented this 

 with intensive studies of the winter snow-house life, and many gramo- 

 phone records of songs, shamanistic performances, and the like. Fin- 

 ger-prints of many of the people and many of their string-games, or 

 cats'-cradles were recorded. 



The Alaska had arrived at Bernard Harbor on September 5, 1915, 

 after going from Baillie Island to Herschel Island for the mail and 

 supplies. After discharging cargo, the Alaska went back west to Stapyl- 

 ton Bay to look for driftwood, as the amount of coal brought in was 

 small. 



Johansen had been in charge of the Bernard Harbor station since 

 the Star left on August 9, with only the cook and Patsy Klengenberg, 

 interpreter, to help him. He had been authorized to do some dredging 

 with the Alaska after her return, so he accompanied her on the trip to 

 Stapylton Bay. He got some valuable soundings and dredgings in Dol- 

 phin and Union Strait, do^vn to a depth of 50 fathoms, and obtained 

 a quantity of specimens from greater depths than he had been able 

 to reach before. Johansen made continued studies of the fresh-water 

 life of the ponds and lakes in the vicinity of the station, and made 

 fairly complete collections of the flora and insect life. Johansen also 

 did some other hydrographic work in the harbor and in the neighbor- 

 ing fresh-water lakes. 



The caribou began to migrate across Dolphin and Union Strait 

 shortly after our return from the east, and were coming in fairly large 

 numbers by November 15, 1915. About forty were taken before the 

 end of the month (including about ten brought by Jenness from the 

 south side of Victoria Island), so a plentiful supply of fresh meat was 

 on hand all winter. Salmon trout were also taken in some numbers 

 up to the middle of December in nets set under the ice of the lakes 

 near the station. 



Captain Sweeney brought in the news that Daniel Wallace Blue, 

 chief engineer of the Alaska, died at the Baillie Islands, on May 2, 

 1915, after an illness of ten days. There was no other illness among the 

 members of the Southern party during the year 1915, except a slight 

 illness of Jenness while he was spending the summer with the Eskimos 

 on Victoria Island. 



Tidal observations were taken at Bernard Harbor for a time in the 

 spring of 1915. The maximum rise of tide recorded was about £1/^ 

 feet. 



Only three or four families of Eskimos were around Bernard Harbor 



