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[[preprinted]] THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1866. [[/preprinted]]
Duff day. Catch a new Pteropod, a clio, and spend the day making drawings &c of it. Dancing in the evening and rain. Very calm and still all day.

[[preprinted]] FRIDAY 3 [[/preprinted]]
Morning, close and foggy. We are within a few miles of land but cannot make it out and dare not go ahead for fear of accidents. Toward evening, haveing been reading Levers novel of Barrington and working over Reigen Catalogue index all day, start to rig up fishline for Schuyler. Come to an anchor in 43 fms after sounding 60 and 57. All hands fishing and catching codfish of the same kind as those last year. Black brings me in alive a pretty little seabird of a genus unknown to me. 
[[pencil insertion]] young Mormon arctiens [[/pencil]]

[[preprinted]] SATURDAY 4 [[/preprinted]]

Morning, am waked up early by Ashcom and go on deck, get hold of a sculpin some one caught and some curious things from the inside of the cod. About 8 o'clock pass through the fog raising and sun coming out gust long enough while the islands except Ougamok were wrapped in fog only the shore lines being visible. Fog fall again. Skin Blacks bird, & get some more soundings. Evening perfectly calm. Sing & write up log. Now in Behring Sea.
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[[preprinted]] SUNDAY, AUGUST 5, 1866. [[/preprinted]]
Morning. Calm and foggy. Get some curious crabs a Limacina, some sand shrimps and jelly fish in the net. Whales very plenty one fellow sailing round and round the vessel spouting and diving. Muster as usual at half past ten. A great deal of kelp floating past. Afternoon make tracing of Starrs map of N. Pacific and color one of them. After dinner promenade the deck till late in the evening. Pass finally through the Ounimak Pass by night

[[preprinted]] MONDAY 6 [[/preprinted]]
Morning, making seven knots for a little while. Dull and cloudy. Spend all day reinforcing and mending two pair heavy drawers. Evening Dance on deck two cotillions, color maps of Behring Sea & N. Pacific.

[[preprinted]] TUESDAY 7 [[/preprinted]]
Still sailing quietly along as before. After breakfast work on maps and finish them. After lunch write on index to Carpenters Mazatlan shells. Walk on deck getting ready for pot. Ask for 50 fms 2 in rope for dredging and a lead line. Trouble brewing between O.D. and C. Spend a good part of the evening in the cabin. Evening rainy and wet. We are about four hundred and fifty miles from Plover Bay and could easily reach it with a smart breeze in two days.

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