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"ung-i-yah" in a bass monotone and rather musical.
As the night was colder than we had anticipated and provided against we were chilled through and the natives awoke now and then and asked each other with chattering teeth if they were cold.

Oct. 1, 1877
Arose before day break and aroused the men who soon had the Chy-nik boiling and a draught from its contents put all to [[rights?]] again and we started on our way with a fair wind and made good time for about 5 miles then stopped and made Chy and did some skirmishing
for game with very poor success Goldenplover, a few duck, and a very few geese (Brauta hulchinsil) bring all we saw with the exception of a few [[lruis?]] a [[strikethrough]] [[ftilo cremis]] [[/strikethrough]] maculata and other small [[smipe?]]
Just before we started again two fidorkies lashed together each containing a man and on a platform of household goods on behind was seated a woman in front was a mast about 3 1/2 [[feet?]] high upon which was hoisted a sail of seal gut about 3[[strikethrough]] ft [[/strikethrough]] by four feet whenever a feud in the tortuous channel made sailing feasible. Travelling along the bank was