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tip of extended first finger to the inner end of right collar bone.

April 10 ~

Went to other side in pm ~ and Mr. Mercier gave me a fine greenstone adz (#7415) which was found some years ago upon the side of a mountain back from the Yukon a day or above Nulato. The ax was found imbedded in a tree and completely over grown so that the finder in cutting the tree (a spruce) was quite surprised to find this ax in the wood near the butt. This locality is in the neighborhood of the mt. from which the near Ungaliks used to obtain this kind of stone and sell it to those farther away. Mr. Greenfield gave me two fine fillets of the bill & neck skin of Colymbus adamsii 


which were brought from Kotzebue Sd. this winter. These fillets are worn by men in their winter dances. [See cat. No. 7416 & 7417] Sleds from Unalakleet & from Mission today report the snow all gone and the natives from Unalakleet say it is summer there but winter here.

11th

The weather became suddenly cold last eve and from the fine thawing weather we had the 1st 8 days of April there came one[[?]] change to a gale from North with falling temp. Therm. down to 6° last [[strikethrough]] day [[/strikethrough]] night.

15th

Still at work upon my Innuit dictionary &c. Today we had quite a snow fall of 

Transcription Notes:
. Sd. = sound [[strikethrough]] day [[/strikethrough]]: "day" is illegible and a guess one[[?]] changed to "one". Was "a". Compared to other occurrences of "a", this word cannot be "a".