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which [[strikethrough]] extend [[/strikethrough]] reach down its sides. A fierce rain and wind storm swept down through the valleys and clefts in the hills and expended their fury upon the bays and whistled through the rigging - Ragged masses of clouds sweeping across the sky & streaming out from the hill tops with a dark sullen appearance making the scene gloomy & cheerless - I spent all day on board writing up my notes and preparing for our start on the home stretch.

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Sept. 25th (Sunday)
Took a 3-holed bidarkie with a couple of Aleuts and went up to the head of the inner harbor the wind freshened & blew directly in our faces on the way up so we were some time in reaching the place but at last arrived at the head of the bay where two or three islands vary the scene & with a clear sparkling stream pouring in a cascade a couple of hundred feet high down the face of the rocks makes a pretty scene  The mts- rise in sharp ridges along both sides of this landlocked bay of Captain's Harbor - This bay like all the deep bays in this chain of islands is a glacier fiord.-

Transcription Notes:
GG: bidarkie is plural of bidarka / baidarka (Russian) - an Aleut skin-covered canoe / kayak, see pg 1 of 10 FANTASTIC reference for terms used in Alaska (English, Russian, Aleut, etc): ftp://ftp.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1880/vol-08-news-press/1880v8-16.pdf ; Also see "history" section for one-, two-, and three-holed versions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleutian_kayak