ML-RI.nr,,.| FOWLING. -ill 



fmiroi- five miles hchnv Vtk\:\v\\]u. mikI most ol' llicm llv iiu :il<iii" I lie 

 siiiootli shore-ice to Periiyfi or I'oinr Kairow. Some Mocks ;il\\;ivs lly 

 up aiiioii.ii- tlie liummocks of tlie huid tioc. and a few others turn east- 

 ward below the vilhig-e and continue their course to the norliicast aci'oss 

 the laiul. 



On tlu". days between tlie -reat tliuhts tliere are always a few Hocks 

 passiu--. aud some davs when tliere is no liii^iit alon-- siioie thc'\ aic 



very abundant out at the o])en water, where the wlialenicn si I them 



in the intervals of whalin.i;-. When a .nTcat Hiuht be;;jiis thi' |ieonh' at 

 the village hasten out aiid form a s<irt of skiiinish line aca'oss the slioic 

 iee ft-om the shore, to the hunu 'ks, a few sometimes stati<inin<; them- 

 selves among the latter. They take but little pains to conceal them- 

 selves, tmiuently sitting out on tl pen icc-liclil on scalini; stools (U- 



squares of bearskins. The ducks j^enerall.N- keep on their couise with- 

 out paying much attention to the men. and in fact one ma\- often get a 

 shot by riumiug so as to head off an ajiproai-hing tl<pck. I'^irlnu', how- 

 ever, frightens them and makes them rise to a considerable hciuht. 

 often out of gunshot. Many ducks aie taken with nuns and holas in 

 thes.. Mights. 



iv'arher late in the season ti Id sipiaws (Clangula hycmalis) pass 



to the northeast in lar-e Mocks, but usually go so high than none are 

 taken. .\ good nian\' of these, however, with a few ciilcrs, geese, brant, 



and loons, remain and bre.-d on the tundra, and ar •casiomilly shot 



by the natives, t hou-h most of them arc too bus.\- with whaling and seal 

 and walrus Imntiiig to pay iinicli attention to liirds. Small parlies of 

 two or three lads or .\dnng miMi. s<imetiim's with their wives, make short 

 <-xcursions inland to the small streams and saml islands east of Point 

 Harrow, after birds and I'ggs, and the boys from the small .'amps along 

 the coast towards Woody Inlet are always on the lookout for eggs and 

 small birds, such as they can kill with their bows and arrows oi' catch 

 in snares. They say thatthi' parties wliicli go cast, anil those which 

 visit the rivers ill summer, get many eggs and tiiid jdcnty of ducks, 

 geese, and swans, which have molted their Might feathers so that they 

 are unable My. 



.\b(.ut the end of .Inly tlic return migration of the ducks begins. ,\t 



than in the spring, conic (iom the east along the northern slnnc, and 

 cross out to sea at the isthmns of I'ernyii, where the natives assem- 

 ble in large numbers to shoot them as w.'ll as to ii t with the Xtina- 



tanmiun. .Ml the | pie who lia\e been scattered along the coast in 



small <-ampsgradna.ny collect at this season at I'crnyii. an<l the return- 

 ing eastern parties generall\ stop there two or three days; wliih', alter 

 they have brought their families back to the village, the men frc(|Uciitly 

 walk U|) to I'eriiyfi for a day or two of diU'k shooting. The tents are 

 liitehedjiist in the bend of I<;isoii Itay, and north of them is a narrow 

 place in the sandspit over which the ducks often pass. Here the iia- 



