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a second one about 4 months old (both males) from one of 
the men from Freycinet Island. Bought a large otter skin 
from Ken. Dissecting loggerhead duck and drawing. Nearly 
a foot of snow. Captain Dollanz all day. 
June 21 , Friday. Snow and south-west wind. Drawing 
and dissecting loggerhead. Jean and Ken out in afternoon 
to see snow. Finished the otter tails, 33 all told. Jean has 
10. 23 to Magallanes by Captain. Snowing hard in the 
evening. Wind shifted to north-west during afternoon. 
June 22 , Saturday . Quiet night, with snow from north¬ 
west. Cristophersen (Swede) with his old boat stayed at 
Douglas. Captain and cutter left at 8 a.m., and will go via 
South-west Channel and other parts to Magallanes in search 
of furs. Morning ‘backing’ chart. In afternoon Ken mended 
model canoe. Jean and self up hill and took photograph of 
Rio Douglas and across Ponsonby Sound to Hoste Island. 
Very beautiful in snow. Wind changed to south-west in 
night. Claude and Kwan (Yaghan boy, Kwan is really 
Spanish pronunciation of Juan) out in small boat to north to 
a camp to see the sheep. Full moon, brilliant. Grandi not 
back yet. Claude back at 7 p.m.; had got a guanaco, and 
brought some of the flesh back with him. 
June 23, Sunday . Very cold night, and everything frozen. 
Water on tubs had to be chopped out. Everything in bed¬ 
rooms frozen. Bright sunny day, but sun never gets above 
hill till after mid-day, and sets at 3.30 away behind hills 
much to the North of West. At 1.30, went up the hill for 
another photograph of the Estancia. Grandi came in at the 
same time. Had spent night at Murray Narrows. Left for 
Bertrand Island at 3.30 p.m. Very strange evening effect to 
north-east. Sky deep dull ultramarine, with snow hill, and on 
this, clump of beeches with brown foliage, and white stems, 
standing out against sky. Quiet freezing evening and no 
wind, but not as cold as night before. 
