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on the 10th of may Col Bulkley told me to make my plans ^[[& requisitions]] and choose ten men with which to make an exploration up the Youkon - I went to work [[underlined]] d-d[[/underlined]] carefully this time and though Ive engaged only seven men ^[[as yet]] they are equal to twenty ordinary chaps.

I have gotten the best [[strikethrough]] king[[strikethrough]] kind of a list of goods - I have studied every point of interest and I'm ready to undertake anything in reason Col Bulkely will ask us to do -

The "Carcajuns" (my men) are all true blue - gentlemen - tough, nervous, and ready for hard work, fun, or anything that comes up - I'd bet on them to [[the?]] discover the open polar sea.

Im in hopes Col Bulkley will let me take more than ten ^[[I ought to have 15]] - He  wishes me to take as few from him as possible.  I think I should take nearly all from him - on May 10th I submitted the following outline of plan.

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^[[ = insertion for the original transcriber ------------- made some minor corrections - nwmath