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[[preprinted]] SUNDAY, JULY 15, 1866 [[/preprinted]]
Morning misty with patches of sunshine. Hugh Le Gare died of delirium tremens last night at a quarter to twelve. All hands in full dress uniform at ten; at half past, assemble around the body, swed up in canvass with 144 lbs of shot and covered with the American flag. Finlay read the Burial service at Sea and he was launched into the sea in lat 33. long. 136°.20' or thereabouts. Course due West, [[underlined]] true [[/underlined]]. Wind light. Muster at eleven. Orders issued for the Government of the men on board both land & marine Evening read Clarkes Mind in Nature.

[[preprinted]] MONDAY 16 [[/preprinted]]
Morning, fine, sunny and calm, such days would make a nation lotus eaters. Trawl over the stern; but few captures in comparison with last years. Obtain a Heteropod, probably an Oxygyrus and getting him under the microscope work for two hours with a degree of success, at the anatomy and form. Get two more in the P.M. also two living Preumodermons, which last I make a sketch of and put in water over night. Evening have singing & dancing on deck. Kelsey dances a jig, Grob sings Der docter Isambart, have a break down &c. &c.

[[preprinted]] TUESDAY 17 [[/preprinted]]
Morning. Get drawing materials together and make colored sketches of the Preumodermon and Oxygyrus with great care, which take me nearly all day. In the afternoon Capt Kelsey hauls up a little Onchyoteuthis in the net, dead but perfect. This is a very interesting addition to the collection. Evening, write up notes &c. We are more than a thousand miles from Frisco by our track and about seven or eight hundred in an air line.
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[[preprinted]] WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1866. [[/preprinted]]
Morning. Orders issued assigning every one to his place at meals and at the wardroom table. Work over Kelsey's little squid which is either an Ommastrephes or an Onychoteuthis or something new. It is probably a new species anyhow. Finish the drawing with great care. It is one of the best I have made in regards to exact accuracy. Look over the chart with the captain. Course N.W. by W 1/2 W. We are about 1000 miles from San Francisco in a direct line. Evening, boxing on deck. &c. Open Catalogue & write up notes.

[[preprinted]] THURSDAY 19 [[/preprinted]]
Cloudy. Sea smooth, with a seven knot wind. Schuyler my assistant busy with the index of the Mazatlan shells, and myself with the index for my volume of pamphlets. These keep us steady at work all day. Catch a large number of Salpoe in the trawl but nothing else. Evening read Ines Maillepré de Maillepré, a sensation novel of the silliest kind but a relief after hard dull work all day. We go straight to Plover Bay, and from thence to the Youkon.

[preprinted]] FRIDAY 20 [[/preprinted]]
Morning. Calm misty and hot. The ship for a half hour in the morning stood perfectly still in the glassy water without a ripple on its surface except those made by swarms of tiny Hyaleas like bees swimming just at or below the surface. We captured four enormous Salps ten inches long who took advantage of the momentary calm to rise to the surface. Make a colored sketch of one and write on index all day. Evening. Dancing on deck

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