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ing down a gradual slope dropped onto the bar of the Chedotlothna 

 River. The rain and warm weather had caused the glaciers to work 

 overtime, so our river crossings gave us more or less trouble. We 

 camped on the west bank of the Chedotlothna some 3 miles down 

 stream. 



As we were making camp Jack Lean located two fine large bull 

 moose, and the next morning we secured both of them. The larger 

 one had a fine heavy set of horns, with a spread of 65 inches, and it is 

 to be the center of the new group. The other was also a heavy, well- 

 balanced head of 62-inch spread, and is to go to the Alaska Museum 

 in Juneau. Mr. Brown was left with one of the men to complete the 

 preparation of the animals after the entire outfit had helped on the 

 preliminary work for a day and a half. 



The balance of the party proceeded to the Tonzona River. The 

 horse wrangler returned the second day after our arrival at the Ton- 

 zona and brought Brown and Charlie back to our camp. We remained 

 on the Tonzona for the balance of the trip, and from there we got five 

 caribou and sheep, and a cow moose for the Smithsonian. We still 

 lacked a calf and a small bull. Every day we would see large bulls 

 and cows, but the cows had no calves with them. The cow we secured 

 had recently had a calf, as her udder was full of milk, but the wolves 

 had undoubtedly done away with it. 



The specimens were all packed to Tonzona Lake, where we had 

 built a cache. Mr. Brown and Jack Lean were left with the specimens, 

 and on September 14 they were flown out to Anchorage with a load 

 of specimens, the rest of the collection going out the next day. But 

 for the plane, I doubt if we would have been able to get all the speci- 

 mens out before snow, and then we would have had to send in dog 

 teams to haul them. 



It became apparent that we would not be able to get the calf and 

 small bull moose to complete the group in the Rainy Pass section. We 

 therefore arranged with Jack Lean to go to the Kenai and obtain these 

 specimens there. Specimens of plants and bushes were taken by Mr. 

 Brown to be used in the moose group. 



