1876.
(April 12 [April 12, 1876])
on the top of my head and cutting an
ugly gash two inches long but luckily not
injuring the skull. The muzzle of my gun
probably broke the force of the fall as it
was completely jammed up and rendered
useless for the present until repaired. Through
the evening the wound broke out bleeding
several times & I was much weakened
by loss of blood. When Mr. Thomas reached
me he found me lying where I had
struck on a narrow ledge barely three
feet [?]: the next descent was at least
20 ft. sheer. 
  Thursday
Apr. 13 [Thursday April 13, 1876] Clear with wind S. [south] veering to E. [east] at sundown.
Kept the sofa nearly all day getting out
to the lighthouse once or twice, but was 
too feeble to walk much. Sea fowl flew all
day long in clouds and the water around
the point was literally alive with beds
of coots, old squaws [oldsquaw] etc. Nearly all the
coots were O. Am. [Oidemia americana] & O. perspicillata [Oidemia perspicillata] in
the ratio of about one of the latter to
five of the former. Only a few scattering
O. fusca [Oidemia fusca] were seen. Sheldrake apparently
all M. serrator [Mergus serrator] were likewise flying.
They come by in flocks of rarely over
twenty and string out more than the
other fowl & also keep higher above the
surface of the ocean. Saw several immense
flocks of brant (B. brenta [ Bernicla brenta]) and shags
(G. dilophus [Graculus dilophus]) The latter resemble the former
almost exactly while on wing but fly differently.
Stone spent most of the day skinning birds