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Brown bears numerous here one tore hole in tent. A tube used for sucking up water through was seen in one tent - the men carry these tubes in a sheath hung to their belts with a plug of deer hair in the lower end for a filter. Tame deer kû räńg ú Wild deer il [[??]] û wílú Dog ät äu Dog sled ú rú [[??]] ó'r 1 nin sä 2 [[??]] râk(a in fathey) 3 nû rôk 4 nû râk 5 mit ling a 6 nun mit ling a 7 ni ra ,, ,, ,, 8 Am go rot 9 Kon a jin ka 10 min git kun Man = Ki lau While at Plover Bay we learned that a Russian man of war has been here & gone north, also that the "Rodgers" Jeannette search exp. steamer left here for St. Michaels about a week ago- Aug. 27 - Left Plover Bay early in the morning we steamed away from here & headed for Berings Sts again into a dense fog which hid everything from us outside a hundred yds radius. Nothing of interest today. Aug. 28- Diomede Is Dense fog all the AM- in the afternoon we stopped at the large Diomede Is- for a few hours as the dense fog & heavy NEaster blowing into the straits made it risky trying to proceed- We went on shore & I bought a number of ethnologica I found the natives here living in houses half dug in the side of the hill and formed inside of rough hewed planks like all the houses along the
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