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move, and with out any [[ underlined]] definite [/underlined]] authority got a gun, 3 bags fine shot ^[[1 duck & 1 buck]] & 2000 caps. The Company have very few and very miserable shot guns; only fit for shooting hogs, with buck shot, through a fence. If they [[underlined]]come down [/under-lined]] on me I shall fall back on Hubbard to the tune of $25.00, coin. The prospect is, that we shall go direct to the mouth of the Youkon, stay awhile, then to Anadyr and Petropavlovsk, where if there is any kind of a show, I shall stay over the winter, sending down what collections I can - by our returning fleet. If there is suspicion of danger or trouble with Mr Kennicotts party, I shall go with the party sent to assist them.

Prof Whitney, the members of the Survey and an invited guest, the subscriber, indulged in a parting dinner for six, in style; at the Cosmopolitan Hotel the other evening. In the course of a month we shall be scattered in every direction Whitney, Gabb, Hoffman King Gardner &