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In the afternoou Colonel Murray, with the natives, continues the branding, making 

 a total of 124 for morning aud afternoon. 



The Bush came to anchor off the village, and immediately after dinner Mr. Lucas 

 and Mr. Barrett-Hamilton went on board for a cruise among the sealing schooners. 



SEPTEMBER 3. 



The weather is particularly flue to-day. Sky entirely clear in the early forenoon; 

 afterwards slightly overcast with clouds. 



REEF DRIVEWAY. 



Mr. Clark went over the course of Eeef drive with a view of getting photographs 

 of typical features of the drive. Five plates were taken.^ The first view was taken 

 at a point just back and up from the hauling ground of the Eeef. It is here that the 

 different pods from the various points are rounded up and the drive begins. This 

 view is a general one, looking in the direction of the drive across the grassy parade 

 ground and over the bowlder-strewn area beyond leading up to the grassy flat among 

 the sand dunes. 



Plate 2 is taken about 100 feet within the bowlder area and shows the jJassage- 

 way of the drive to the right of the middle of the cliff's. In the background of the 

 picture can be seen the hollow between the sand dunes. To the right of the 

 background is a high grass-covered sand dune. 



Plate 3 is taken at the foot of this dune, looking forward to the Black Bluff, with 

 Polovina Hill in the distance. It shows the length of the grassy valley along which 

 the drive now takes its course. 



Plate 4 is taken at the edge of this plain where it drops down over a low cliff' to 

 the bowlder area above Zoltoi sands, showing the village to the left, the village killing 

 ground, and the length of Zoltoi sands in front. 



Plate 5 is taken at the foot of the large sand dune back of Zoltoi sands, and 

 beside which the drive takes its course. It faces Zoltoi bluffs and shows bull seals 

 hauled out among the rocks. It looks back over the drive to the grassy plain above, 

 aud is the reverse view of plate 4. 



Plate 6 is taken from the little grassy knoll at the farther end of the sands and 

 where the drive rises to the level grassy killing ground by East Landing. The 

 photograph looks back over the drive, with Zoltoi sands in the foreground, and showing 

 the bowlder slope of Zoltoi bluff's, a nearer view of which was contained iu the 

 background of photograph 6. 



Plate 7 is taken from practically the same point, but looking in the opposite 

 direction and showing the extent of the village killing ground. 



BEEF. 



Dr.-Jordan visited the Eeef this morning with Professor Thompson and made the 

 following notes: 



There is every reason to believe that sex exhaustion in overworked bulls is 

 imaginary. In general old bulls that have had 40 or more cows in their harems are 

 quite as active and their sex force and pugnacity lasts quite as long as with the bulls 



' Unfortunately these undeveloped negatives were damaged in transit to San Francisco. 



