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abundant in the weeds about the Fort.  The swallows left about 10 days ago, now only three or four are about the Redoubt.
Budytes [] flava is also rather scarce nearly all left over a week ago.
Aug 20 two specimens of Helmith [?]  celata were shot near the Redoubt also several Yellow Warblers and a spec. of Black-poll " [warblers] in the garden.  On the 18th an employee's half grown Son[?}was brought in by the natives and 
 [crossed out] on the 21st.  Some spec's of Som [?] fischeri[?] with the wing feathers ungrown from the summer moult.  Also a spec. of Oe. troubridgin[?] the bill of which I made a sketch.  Aug. 13 I shot a spec. of Picus pubescusp[?] from a staff projecting from one of the bastions.
August 23--
The traders left with a fair wind for the mouth of the Yukon.
A bidarra under its immense spread of canvas with a motley crew of fur clad natives with their guns and various goods and chattels makes a sight well worth witnessing and one involuntaryly compares them to the Argonauts or more appropriately to the hardy Norsemen on their adventurous voyages.
Aug.24 --
Some bidarkies arrived from the coast toward the Yukon to trade.  The only event of interest   

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some Scientific names unsure.