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[[preprinted]] FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1866. [[/preprinted]]
Morning. 32 below zero. Unpack and arrange boxes. Kurilla a good Koyoukun Indian, brings in slats and puts them up on the beams to lay traps & clothes on which saves a great deal of room. Get a box cover scrape it and put [[image - drawing of room layout with stove and table]] up a shelf for my books & traps which I want to get at constantly. Set up the barometer and get out the thermometer & books. Russian Saturday and get a bath. The Bathhouse is better than the one at Unalakleet but today the stones had got nearly cold so the bath was not as good as usual.

[[preprinted]] SATURDAY DECEMBER 1 [[/preprinted]]
Russian Sunday. Morning 44 below zero clear & calm. Mornings here commence at 10 oclock and evenings at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Skin a small snow bird brought in the other day very much mutilated, by Larriown. Read a mass of rubbish by Reynolds. My own books are mostly at St. Michaels so that I have nothing to read, and very little day light to do it by. Buy the Captains rabbit skin blanket of him. Make Flapjacks for dinner. Petzka goes off on some wild goose chase and when he comes back the Captain discharges him. Begin to keep the Barometrical records.

[[preprinted]] SUNDAY 2 [[/preprinted]]
Morning 45 below zero, cloudy but calm. Kurilla cooks for us and we get along very well without Peetzka. Clear off the floor, sweep out and get old Zagorsha in and with Kurilla caulk the cracks in the floor with moss as it is very cold for the feet, cover the floor with straw and put down some old blankets over it and make it much more comfortable. In the evening go in to see Ivan the bidarshik, and give him a good pocket knife in exchange for a parki which he made me a present of today

[[preprinted]] MONDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1866. [[/preprinted]]
Morning 52 below zero. Day dark & short. Hang up flags to beautify the room. The captain buys a feather bed and I must follow suit for sleeping with nothing but a blanket between you and the bare boards is played out any longer. Mike is probably at Ulukuk.

[[preprinted]] TUESDAY 4 [[/preprinted]]
Morning 55 below zero, with first an east and then a west wind. Go outside the fort and look about, the whole country seems to be over shadowed by what I should call a frozen mist or haze. put up some more hangings. Get my pillow covered. Have Ivan the bidarshik into dinner.

[[preprinted]] WEDNESDAY 5 [[/preprinted]]
Morning. Cold and clear. 55 below zero. Do nothing vigorously all day. Mrs. Larriown all day in the house. Gas from the peetchka being secreted too soon gives us all severe head aches & we turn in early.
Discuss plans with Capt Ketchum and lay out to go up the Youkon instead of down next summer with Whymper in a bidarra after the ice breaks up which will give me a good opportunity to study the geology of the country between here & Ft Youkon

Transcription Notes:
The transcription uses "&" symbol versus the author uses "+" symbol. A: Author is writing "and" in shortened form not "plus" therefore I think it makes sense to transcibe as "&".