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Saturday 30. Clear moderately cold, about 30° minus. Sunday 31. Weather same as yesterday, about 30° to 35° minus. Monday April 1. Sent by Constantine to our camp hard bread, meat, flour, small quantity of sugar and one axe. Will not go up until the weather gets more moderate Tuesday April 2nd. Started this morning with my party for our camp in the Myan, Arrived at 3 P.M. and found everything all right, except the narte. The foxes had eaten a portion of the remain lashings. Very cold, about 30° minus. Thursday 4th moved camp today about 5 miles. As near as I could tell about 8 miles from the river. Still very cold and clear. The line runs over a rolling country, thinly timbered, in a S.W. direction towards Orlofka peaks. Friday 5th cutting and distributing poles this morning. Intensely cold. Cut 3 miles of poles. Saturday 6th Still very cold. Went out this morning and selected a route for the line. Mr. Mason froze his feet very badly. So much so that he could hardly get back to camp without assistance. Up to this evening we have cut and distributed about twenty-four miles of poles. Sunday April 7. Camp No 4. I got up in the night and made