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had patiently been waiting at his seal hole now
got discouraged and started to camp. He saw the
seal that had dissapointed me and had the same
luck with him that I did. Now come the strangest
thing of all. Crawford saw a seal to the East and
started crawling "seal fashion". A drizzling rain now
started and Crawford thought that he was close enough to
shoot. He shot. The seal's head still remained up. He
shot, again and again and again. Four times all
together. And down went the seal. Instead of the seal
being 50 yds. as he thought, the seal was 125 yds.
Crawford had crawled for about 2 hours thru wet
snow. I shot 2 gulls for a specimen. Species un-
known. Haudled a load of wood and cut some.
Fresh breeze from East. Cloudy. Saw three ducks

June 6 Tuesday

max 49.0
min 28.5
Turned in about 10 P.M. last night as we were up
practically all yesterday and and the night before. It
is now 2 A.M. of

June 7 Wednesday

max 34.0
min 27.0
A seal appeared twice a few hours ago, to the South,
and only stayed up for 3 or 4 minutes each time.
At last he came up seemingly to stay and Maurer
went out to try his luck. This was the same seal,
or at least a seal at the same hole that dissapointed
Maurer & I under entry of June 4 & 5. I have just
had a look thru this binoculars at the seal and find
that he has disapointed Maurer (and all of us)