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[[pre-printed]] MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1866. [[/pre-printed]]
Morning. Warmer and a little snow. Spent most of the day in preparing for Christmas and making four pies two of the native cranberries & two out of some of Mrs. Bridges preserves of strawberry and a strawberry shortcake the first ever made in the country. Evening. Work on my vocabularies of Koyoukunsky, with Kurilla, and write. Captain K has had a hosaker for several days who sews quite well and is small and inoffensive except that she washes in the kettle of various slops

[[pre-printed]] TUESDAY 25 [[/pre-printed]]
Up early in the morning. After breakfast set to work and make gingerbread, apple dumplings and sauce, which takes nearly all day. After dark get Yagor in and sit down to the best dinner ever eaten in Russian America comprising reindeer & vegetable soup, roast grouse, canned peas tomatoes & lamb chops, dumplings, pies, cheese, coffee tea gingerbread &c &c. After supper smoke and Whymper reads a [[mumery?]] story and I a parcel of doggerel about the little Puritan Mary Carleton, and conclude the day with a milk pouch and conversation.

[[pre-printed]] WEDNESDAY 26 [[/pre-printed]]
Morning. Quite warm and very pleasant 15 above Get Kurilla out to see the traps who finds the remains of a rabbit in one but he got away leaving much hair and blood behind. Have fish for dinner. Captains hosaker working on my old coat. Write up notes on the Nulato Massacre Evening take the meat off a boiled fox and two sables, a nasty job well over, write and turn in.
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[[pre-printed]] THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1866. [[/pre-printed]]
Morning. Get some small birds from Kurilla and skin them. Read smoke and write up my Indian notes and finally finish them for the present. Take note of the length of the day, which is just three hours, the sun setting at 1.45 and rising at 10.45. Old Créve Glass in during the day. Turn in early. Dyer expected but dont come.

[[pre-printed]] FRIDAY 28 [[/pre-printed]]
Morning. Mike gets out two telegraph poles for which I have bracketts and insulators ready and we propose to hoist the flags and raise the poles New Years Day if possible. Take a good bath and feel much better for it. These Russian baths are great institutions. After dinner start a map, from a tracing I took of Zagoshkins map at Unalakleet. Get it about half done. Yagor in in the evening.

[[pre-printed]] SATURDAY 29 [[/pre-printed]]
Morning. Still warm. About ten above zero. Day cloudy & calm. Do nothing all day vigorously. Read Tennyson and catalogue and put away some bird skins. Evening skin two beautiful white grouse, pretty creditably. I have improved a good deal in bird skinning this winter. Go in to the casine and see a dance got up by the rabotniks which is much as usual but more noise and less light and more stamping than ever