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I was much pleased and spent the 20th and 21st packing and preparing to leave A.M. In the afternoon of 21st the acco's steamer St. Paul arrived and brought Lewitt my relief for the signal service and taking my mail I went off to the Conoin of [[?]] PM and she got up [[?]] and left for St. Lawrence Is. where I am to gather Crania and thus [[sheeis?]] them a short arctic cruise to pick up a man left in the arctic on Kolinchin Is. to try & get tidings of the Jeanette and then back to St. [[Sy?]] to send down mail and then on for the orol works of the expedition to try for Wrangell daus.
Fine sunset [[?]] 10 & 11 am.

22d

standing W.SW direction today. I saw a fine walrus & shot him in the morning but did not secure it as this fellow sunk very quickly. Murres seen from time to time were the only birds until we passed out from the discolored water of the sound into the deep blue of the western half of Benings Sd. In the eve, the wind began to freshen and to the westword a peculiar whitish haze like the loom of ice was seen.

23d

The wind blowing a light gale but steadily increasing as we stood along the northern shore of St. Lawrence. Is which we struck about midway at 6 am. The wind was so severe that we were compelled to keep on by the two villages of deaf which I was to visit. The wind blowing