(% Harbor 



I told them I would pay for it, but the old man kept on yelling, and 

 the boys explained to me that he would not let ine take that thing into his 

 boat for any price. As the ship was ready to go away I threw the stone 

 lamp back on the beach, and I was pulled on board. But I afterwards re- 

 gretted I did not call for the dory of the ship, and in that way save this 

 interesting and rare article, for it is the only stone lamp I have seen yet 

 amongst the Tchonktchees. 



Afterwards I asked Sam, our native interpreter, for his opinion of the 

 story about the stone lamp and Sam said "Suppose dead man's lamp no good 

 take him boat." Leaving Shelton river June 27, and running northward 

 towards Cape Serdze we met with very big ice. We kept close to the land- 

 floe but the lead was in some places so narrow that we had to make quite a 

 bumping and squeezing to make advancement. In the larger openings in 

 the ice great numbers of seabirds were swimming around. A band of Eider- 

 ducks was so little shy that the vessel got within shotgun range and I man- 

 aged to kill four birds from the schooner : three Spectacled Eiders and one 

 Kins' Eider. This was to be my only opportunity for Spectacled Eiders this 

 year. A few Cormorants [Phalacrocorax bicristatus), Yellow -billed loons and 

 large bauds of Old Squaws were also frequently seen on these places. We 

 passed the Arctic circle late at night the same day (June 27), and after 

 rounding Cape Serdze we next stopped outside the village, Tjnpka. 



This far we had had most disagreeable weather all along, windy, foggy. 

 rainy and snowy. As the only cabin of the ship measured exactly 7x7 feet 

 exclusive of the space occupied by bunks and cooking stove, etc., it may be 

 understood what kind of comfort we did have when we had to stay inside for 

 the nasty weather. The cabin was occupied by the captain, engineer and 

 myself, and there being only two bunks we had to use them "after turn." As 



West Side of Kolintschen Island, July 3, 1909 



