-27th-
Bad weather to this date - dreadful
winds - snow & too inclement to
hunt. This evening, however, is clear
calm & colder & I hope tomorrow will
be nice. If so I will climb the mountain
& make Kodak views around the cape.
Today I worked on vocabulary with
Ok-ba-ok the chief - with the assistance
of M. Lopp & Louis Lane. The Eskimo
have already brought in some seals
Wrote a letter to Debbie tonight and
it will go to Nome by Eskimo carrier
tomorrow. Have made arrangements
to go up coast 35 miles to Mr Lopps rein
=deer herd & thence with reindeer & sleds
with native drivers across country to
Teller - in about a week. Am getting
a fine collection of Eskimo curios
- many jade specimens - old Russian
bells - dated 1817, &c. Louis will
go from here - when I go north - straight
down coast to Teller & wait for me.
