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[[underlined]] Russian Sunday [[/underlined]]
[[preprinted]] SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1866. [[/preprinted]]
Morning. Waked by Capt Smiths boy Tommy who says "cooshit'' and go down to the steamer for grub. We have a small but select mess there and the grub is highly preferable to that at the fort. Get a beautiful grouse which I lay aside to skin. Boys at work hauling up the Wilder. Put up some medicine for little Marcia who is Andreas daughter. Look over the medicine chest and find some of the things frozen. Take in into andreas room. P.M. Dyer in my tent trying to make arrangements for making boots. Westdahl & Smiths bidarràs arrive about 4 P.M. all right. Westdahl sleeps in my tent with me. Very cold and piercing wind blows at night but sleep quite comfortably. Dogs howling all night.

[[preprinted]] SUNDAY 14 [[/preprinted]]
Morning very cold and windy. Go into the fort and dress and down to the steamer. This is the last day that we shall eat on board of her as the stove is to be taken up to the fort where we shall get our grub henceforth. Ennis and Ketchum will mess with Andrea and we shall mess in the bakehouse and the men in the new loghouse. Dyer working over [[strikethrough]] e [[/strikethrough]] his requisition. Some of the Iglelut chiefs down here and we measure out powder lead and caps to them in order that they may shoot reindeer for us when we get to Nulato. The are much finer looking men than the Mahlemuts
[[image - pencil sketch on left side of page showing Fort layout that Dall mentions above.]]

[[preprinted]] MONDAY 15 [[/preprinted]]
Morning, go into the fort to dress and breakfast. Rolls, bacon and tea - Get out barometer and find 1406 is + .018 to 1536. Set up 1406 and repack the other. Weather mild. Help Dyer on his calculations. Get out alcohol for Francis and get 200 bullets from him. Bullets, shot, cotton drill, powder and percussion caps, needles and old clothes will take any man through this country. Beads are of no account. Afternoon take a fine steam bath feel clean and comfortable, wander round without any thing particular to do till supper time. After supper read George Duke or the Captain of the Vulture by Mrs Braddon and top off with a few chapters of good Shirley.

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[[preprinted]] TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1866. [[/preprinted]]
Morning blowy. Help Dyer to get out Nulato stores. Get a light parkie of Ostraskoi for $4.00 on a/c. The light adult deerskins generally of a gray brown color, white on the belly, are called neédress. The young fawns of a pleasant red brown and grey white are called wíperote. The tame deerskins generally pied, white, brown, and gray, are called comellóny. There are no tame deer on the American side but on the Asiatic side, especially in the Anadyr District, the richer chiefs have herds sometimes reaching, according to report, the number of 20,000. After noon, put the Nulato stores into Andreas little storehouse, read and smoke. Westdahl goes into the

[preprinted]] WEDNESDAY 17 [[/preprinted]]
house to sleep being terrified by the cold weather. I do not think the thermometer has been above 28° since we slept there, though it may have been at noon, a tin dipper of water, frozen hard the first night has since remained so. We have four Indian servants here who have been christend by the most ridiculous names. Maguffin, Lunchy, Isaac and Gin, of whom Lunchy is by far the best, and a very useful man. A most beautiful day and evening. Get Ennis Whymper, Andrea, Ketchum and Francis into the tent and treat them to some of Mrs. Scammons old Jamaica, which is a good thing to stimulate their affectionate feelings, and promote the milk of human 

[[preprinted]] THURSDAY 18 [[/preprinted]]
kindness. Morning after a very comfortable night, find my self snowed in but on getting out find it to be merely a drift, of a foot or two deep made by the wind and snow in the night. Lay around and do nothing all day. snowing and blowing hard. P.M. Write to Bean at St. Michaels asking him to send up some alcohol, birds egg boxes, arsenic and Plaster of Paris for Sci. purposes and also a box of fine sporting powder, a barkis is to go down tomorrow morning and I may be able to get up such an addition to our stores as will be desirable. Weather quite warm and snow thawing every where

Transcription Notes:
Mary Elizabeth Braddon was a prolific writer in the mid to late 1800's Name is Bean, not Beau Ambrosia: Reviewed with minor edits.