Hoempn . £• !• 16 
1964— Aleut lens 
down near Puaik Islands. 
Soon he appears and harnesses 4 dogs to central tow-line of the simple 
sled while I hold it, harnesses made of young muk-luk. Ye go east while 
a stout snd even shorter 22 yr. old cousin of hl» or his wife, 
Vincent Sevouhok, takes in end battered shotgun west out on the ice of the 
Bering Sea. So my fist dogsled ride is on sea ice full of gaping crefcks 
and low wet spots with my eskimo driver shouting chigg-C'igg for right or 
huh-huh (left) continually. I'm amazed at our speed, we fairly fly. 
An open pool has common ciders and red-throated loons, by one little creek where 
we stop is a whale rib longer than I am 'nd 1 nearly get dunke- when a piece 
of rotten ice breaks wit; me on my way back to the sled. At the Abraheir. 
Biver we stop and he says he'll meet me back at Cape SU'voo we'd passed 
earlier. In a pond area I see and walk up closr to 14 emperors, 1 cackler, 
and a pr. of lesser scaup. Back at village I talk to his wife, Helen, 
slight with d? rk Ions' hair who is fm. s. side and remembers Otto heist 
(Clarence collected for Geist about 3928). She knows birds well, and even 
Sharon, the teenage daughter who sreaks best English, saw 2 bald eagles 
last year. He ssid he has 4 kids and 2 adopted — the little girl, Darlene, 
is so white she must be one of the latter, will be 2 in Sept. Another 
girl ls4yuical fat eskimo, must be 12 or IB. They h've wolverine pelt 
Anchorage furries, which Green sent them as prize for hrv'ng cleanest 
sealskins in ell Alaska, but they seem more pleased that their name was 
broadcast over KICY Nome announcing them as winner. I saw some of their 
seal skins— vary nice, but I'm sorry to hear the price is jumping on them 
and that Norwegian sealers ere seeking to kill in N. Pacific and Bering Sea 
waters, having depleted the N. Atlantic. 
