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[[preprinted]] FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1866. [[/preprinted]]
Morning, wind blowing hard and fresh in puffs. Make arrangements with Preston & Westenhal to ascend and measure Danger Peake. but wind blowing so that the barometer will not keep steady aboard and start in boat to go to Wright for tripod & Westenhal and ashore. Get tripod but find Westy busy, and go ashore leaving Preston to watch the lower station while I ascend alone the craggy peak which I accomplish successfully about two hours going up and one coming [[strikethrough]] g [[/strikethrough]] down, a very hard climb with a heavy load. Height 2179.5 ft. true.

[[preprinted]] SATURDAY 8 [[/preprinted]]
Morning snowing hard, decks covered, hills and gullies quite white. No chance of getting boots, it appears although I have cut my only pair to pieces on the mountain. Work over small chart of Plover Bay repairing proportional dividers &c. Give letter for W.W. Robinson at Anadyr to Finlay. Get another mountain thermometer from Lewis. Get an unfinished flag from Agnes our Quartermaster and set to work all the evening sewing on stars. Feet a little blue. Odds heavy, but never say die. Nearly four weeks laying, all but idle, in this desolate port.

[[preprinted]] SUNDAY 9 [[/preprinted]]
Morning, cold and wet without cessation snowing lightly No inspection. Getting ready to leave. About eleven a gun fired to order all hands to be ready for sea but the wind suddenly dying away we remain at anchor with the chain short. A yellowish white gull circling about the vessel at 3. 7' P.M. weigh anchor and start down the bay Col. Bulkley aboard at seven thirty anchor near the spit in lower harbor. Weather thick. Wind light, ahead. Work on flag most of the afternoon and evening.

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[[preprinted]] MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1866. [[/preprinted]]
Morning. Accept an invitation from Capt. Scammon and go aboard whaling brig Victoria with Col. Bulkley. Capt. & Mrs. Scammon & the baby. Dr. Fisher, Covert, Wicker, Capt. Patterson & Ryder, to hold a survey on her and inspect Capt Fishes ingenious substitute for the rudder wrenched off by the pack-ice in the Arctic Sea. Ryder takes a photograph of it, we have a punch of alcohol cum capsicum, leave for the little steamers then for the Wright who goes up after the Rutgers & Gate which come sailing down about 1 P.M.

[[preprinted]] TUESDAY 11 [[/preprinted]]
During the evening a strong breeze springs up from the Northward which increased to a gale and about 12 P.M. our anchor commenced to drag and we narrowly escaped running down the brig Victoria before the second anchor was holding. All day following, wet, blowy, and disagreeable. Pack away some collections skin four birds shot by Everett Smith. Nunez and Tripp aboard in P.M. Turn in early. wind abating. Rutgers sailed at 6.35 for Gr. Hav.

[[preprinted]] WEDNESDAY 12 [[/preprinted]]
Still lying here idle with the precious time flying by. the hilltops white with snow, and no vessel or word yet sent to the American side where we were expected in May. The Golden Gate with the little steamer [[Wales? Wade?]] in tow is towed out by the Wright enroute for Anadyr at 8 P.M. Bush in command. Nockum is given one of the two remaining stoves, and two or three thousand feet of lumber out of our scanty supply. Smith aboard in the evening.

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