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the first ice, and in obedience to which, I left Unalakhlit on the 2d. December 1.5[[?]] with Messers[[?]] O. de Bendeleben, Chappel and Cotter. Nikafer and Hanson (Russians) with four Indians, two sleds, 12 dogs and provisions for 30 days.
  After an absence of twenty days, I returned to Unalakhlit when I met the Major and submitted by report, a copy of which I herewith enclose. In that report there are a few mistakes regarding the country about Norton Bay, and which on my subsequent exploration in that country I discovered. 
  1st From Kouyuk[[?]]-Mute, Head of Norton Bay, to sound Golovine[[?]], timber can be found in places that will answer for the building of the line around the northern and western shores of Norton Bay.
  2d. Sound Golovine is a more preferable point for a post or station than Kuikh[[/]]-mute, inasmuch as the anchorage is good, the harbor well protected, the natives well behaved, and an abundance of oil, fish and Uaklak[[?]] (large seal) meat. At the head of this sound commences the road through the interior to Grantley Harbor.
  3r. Viewing the shores of Sound Golovine, the eye meets with nothing but barreness, no trees being visible, except towards its head, where flows the Skuthluik[[?]] river.