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Bulkley's fancy - never says one word that he can avoid - I do not think there is a single officer on the expedition that does not heartily detest him.

 - I believe the Col still supports him a good deal on the principle that a man wont allow [[underlined]] his own [[/underlined]] dog to be kicked even if it is a [[underlined]] yellow [[underlined]] dog and vile cur! - 

I must confess that I hate the fellow most thoroughly and if events do not punish him most severely - so that he collapses entirely - I will yet get into a position where I will knock him into the middle of the next century. - He has been a perfect firebrand in the whole ^[[expedition]] community here. - and together with a chap named ODonohue from Rochester (whom I offended by a well merited rebuke when I first arrived here) managed for a while get me a bad name with all the officers as well as Bulkley - I now think some of my own party were