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[[preprinted]] Wednesday, October 31, 1866 [[/preprinted]]
Morning. Write to Dyer, have breakfast and send all the sleds back with Foss & Chase. Keep nine dogs, to go up to Nulato with the light Ingaleet sleds. Weather very mild and thawing fast in the morning but about noon changes to cold again. Go over with Mike and Francis and get out some molasses. Let the dogs out of the Indian house where they have been shut up to prevent their following the returning sleds. Weather renders the prospect of moving on to Old Ulukook and Nulato rather distant. Whymper and Francis have a great discussion about the relative merits of rice and beans, as an article of food.

[[preprinted]] Thursday, November 1 [[/preprinted]]
Weather still warm and snowing fast. Ingechook and Amilcar go out shooting. Find the dogs are not all here some nine of them having left for Unalakleet. Propose to Ketchum to start tomorrow morning and walk down to Unalakleet (25 miles) and get the dogs. Francis insists on going too. Make arrangements with Lofka, an indian from Nulato to go up to Nuclukayet. Tell all the Indians to bring out their fish (dried) for dog feed and Ketchum intends to buy all they can spare for our dogs this winter.

[[preprinted]] Friday 2 [[/preprinted]]
A fine day, but warm. Start at a quarter to nine with Francis to walk to Unalakleet. Walking good but wet and we have to bank it, part of the way. Start my old five-mile-swing, and arrive at Unalakleet at 2.10 P.M. just in time for a hot steam bath and a good dinner. Walking down on the frozen river is a good deal longer that going over land, but we had no snow shoes and it was much harder to walk through deep snow 15 miles than on ice 25 miles. Sleep in Adams bunk he being gone with bidarra to St. M.
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[[preprinted]] Saturday, November 3, 1866 [[/preprinted]]
Morning. Warm and unpleasant. Francis does not feel like going up today and the ice is very bad, so I conclude to wait till tomorrow. Dine with Andrea. give him some shot, buy a pair of boots $1.00. write to Joe Pierce at Plover Bay as there is a slight chance that some of the Indians may cross the strait this winter. Go down to the dance in the evening, to the manes of a dead man in which some six or 8 friends dance in costume, and a vast quantity of edibles consumed and things given away.

[[preprinted]] Sunday 4 [[/preprinted]]
Morning. Therm. 16°, a strong northeast wind blowing with snow in blinding clouds. Notwithstanding the opposition (sensible enough too), of all all hands, I start off about half past ten, alone for Unalakleet where I arrive cold, wet and tired about 6 P.M. an hour and a half after dark The feeling which urged me off, as usual proved to have a foundation. To my astonishment I find a note from Ketchum who started yesterday for old Ulukook and sent another train today which I have missed. Only Ingechook here. Chi, dry, & turn in

[[preprinted]] Monday 5 [[/preprinted]]
Get Ingechook to go over to Ulukook with a note to Capt. Ketchum in case he has not gone, asking for orders &c. If he is there I will take a sled & dog from here and go over there, if not I will take a sled down to Unalakleet with my blankets &c - and wait till Dyer comes up and come with him Cook my breakfast and go over and get some flour sugar &c from the store house. Francis arrives about 4 P.M. Ingechook soon after with a note from Ketchum saying that he leaves Old Ulukuk tomorrow morning 

Transcription Notes:
bidarra = type of skin boat Dall uses both spellings - Ulukook and Ulukuk