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fired we lifted the same[[unsure]] i.e. 288 lbs in one hand.

A lamentable occurrence took place at the rival trading station on the Mainland three nights ago - 
owing to the brutality of two White men, or rather brutes. A native girl about 16 or 17 who had been married in native fashion to their native cook of the station [[strikethrough]] h [[/strikethrough]] went there to live a few days since and a few nights after her arrival a man named [[?]] and Canadian and John Johnson or "Big John" a Norwegian entered their tent and driving her husband away proceeded to rape her and she struggling to prevent them Johnston knelt with his knees upon her chest and struck her seveere severe blows with his knees in the chest & side rupturing some bloodvessels in her lungs and causing profuse haemorrhage [[hemorrhage]].
She came here to be doctored and gave us considerable trouble but we finally succeeded in checking the blood.

Aug. 10. 1877-
Went out to Whale Is in my bidarkie after 2P.M. obtained a few Mormons and some specimens of Lasus- Which were exceedingly numerous there. I also saw a single [[strikethrough]] aslelan [[/strikethrough]] Wandering Tatler and a [[strikethrough]] fllo [[/strikethrough]] flock of some 30 or 40 specimens of Tringa ptilocnemis, two of which of which were obtained.  Sterna macrura was also very numerous, both adult and young.