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till too late to start up the Youkon by open water. If so Ill work at Natural History at Ft St Michals till Dec 1st and then start on Snow Shoes! and do all the better work for Science!  It is impossible to travel on snow shoes^[[to advantage]] till about Dec 1st.

We shall see that which we shall see.
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I dont know that any explanations of my seeming inactivity and want of energy in Natural History matters in San Francisco would help the matter now - and the subject of my whole experience with that city (with the exceptions mentioned hereafter) are so disgusting that I hate to refer or even to think of them. - You must remember that I had to form plan after plan - that I expected each day or week to start the next and that I was kept in a constant state of care and anxiety, while withal at the time it [[strikethrough]] would have been [[/strikethrough]] seemed unsafe to leave the city for even a few days at a time. - Col Bulkley evidently expected each week that he would start the next and seemed quite in a sea of doubt and uncertainty -

I ought to state that I was