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way and with a high wind we stood across the strait to the larger Diomede Is where we stopped barely long enough to take on the party left them on our way up and then we stood down into Berings Sea for Cape Tchaplin to land Joe the interpreter for the land party just taken on board.
My man has secured a lot of crested, parrot billed and least Auks, + a few pigeon Guillemots besides eggs of the three first species which nest a abundantly on the island beside murres, both puffins, violet green cormorants kittiwakes and perhaps other species. 

July 2
Stood down the coast until when off Cape Tchaplin when we saw a lot of skin boats layering off in our course waiting for us we took them in tow until all were alongside numbering some 9 or 10 boats and about 130 or 140 men and a few women. Many of the natives all along this coast talk English which they have learned from the whalers. Some of their expressions are very funny given with the odd intonation of the words. Capt. H. says that when he passed here last year without stopping a man called out from one boat "Cap'n, why in hell don't you stop and anchor?" [The interpreter Joe tells us that the natives on the N. coast told him of boarding (a few walrus) hunters