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[[strikethrough]] A [[/strikethrough]] revenue cutter the            came in and anchored just at dark.

Saturday June 2/1877
Crossed the harbor to Amaknak Is. with "Visiclie" the priests son in the morning, to dig into some house sites I found a few days since.  On the way over a swallow ([[He?]] [[howe?]]) was seen skimming about.  At the ancient village site the houses were scattered about irregularly [[strikethrough]] wi [[/strikethrough]] and were nearly all small & square [[strikethrough]] with a few  [[/strikethrough]] as shown by the outline of the depressions that marked the places of the houses.  In the centre of the village [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] is a long shallow depression much larger than the surrounding

pits with a partition[[strikethrough]] in  [[/strikethrough]] across the center an a communicating door as could be seen by the low bank of earth.  The village site is as follows

[[handdrawn village layout showing house locations on a bank/plateau.  25 square house depressions and large rectangular depression]]

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