Hoeman . J. 7. 
1964— Aleutians 
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minutes later we're landing on the- gravel strip st B ! Cape, Lots of people 
there to greet the few who get off ( nd among them portly Lt. Col. fmith with 
slight gray mustache end warm, unsuperior manner— quite unmilitary. He 
crowds us into Dodge double cab AF pick-up to go up to the base and asks 
what those birds are on the way. Glaucous gull X says they later turn out 
to b<= herrmg. 're assigned nice clean room in BOQ,, hare good chow 
(the whole place is connected up with hallways so they never here to go 
outside). 2 weeks ago all was winter with snow everywhere . Thla evening 
I walk aro nd while we wait to meet native "chief" Clarence Pungowiyi. 
Yellow wagtail, old squaw, pintqil, Golden Plover, Buddy Turnstone, Dunlin, 
W. Sandpiper, end Lapland Longspur I see. Baven, longtail $aeger, no, 
phelarope, short-eared owl, sandhill crane seen too. 
Clarence is stocky 5'2" eskimo Who knows game birds better than others, 
but will t< us out in boat tomorrow- -west her permitting. e drove down to 
his village and brought him up I remember now. 
June 1,3 . 1964 
A day of events. After breakfast Win and 1 start to walk to native 
village, but the Col, overtakes us in truck with the rations, galoshes and 
parka he'd promised. See 7 or 8 ravens, and he tells us the eskimos believe 
they're reincarnated ancestors, /he ice blocks us solidl so boating's out 
but Clarence says he'll take us bird-hunting by dogsled so we wait watching 
flocks of birds passing continorsly gut over the ice (least crested auklets 
it turns out). S re 2 pair of Ptnperor Geese fly by close and ^ walk out 
to a tundra pond where I see a pair of Common li&ers. Some fleshed out 
tusk-bearing portions of walrus heeds lyng around and in his boat (walrus 
hide painted white) a deed horned puffin nd least auklet he killed yesterday 
