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[[line]] Sunday Jan 13. [[line]] 
Morning. Cold -45. Do nothing all day energetically. Evening skin three poor specimens of arctic grouse and go in to the bidarshiks and see his wife, who has an eruption on the groin, of no account. Fine Aurora & very cold

[[line]] Monday Jan. 14. [[line]] 
Very Cold -54. Write up notes and read. Evening skin a woodpecker. Fine Aurora. Whymper makes an abortive attempt to steam some dried apples

[[line]] Tuesday. Jan 15 [[line]] 
Still cold. -46. Morning pack my boxes of bird and fossils. Casine on fire but soon put out Pickett at work on the Fort Youkon sleds. Buy a squirrel of Larriown for 4 bullets & caps. He wants more but concludes to keep what he has got. Somebody ought to knock this old wretch on the head

[[line]] Wednesday Jan 16 [[line]] 
Morning. Milder -24. Bath day. Out of turn as tomorrow is prasnik. Larriown brings in two birds one very badly damaged and I buy some [[rosserm? rosseum?]] orga from Kurilla. Read & write Medical Rep.

[[line]] Thursday Jan. 17.[[line]]
Morning. Colder -36. Ivan the Tyone gets back from Newicárgut with the news that the Indians are all starving up there, and with 500 sables. Larriown comes in with three sables and asks 2 lbs of shot for them and is of course refused. Somebody will have to pop him over. Skin two birds in the evening, and catalogue them.

[[line]] Friday Jan. 18 [[line]]
Nothing going on. Write up some notes, see some sick Russians. Get a white grouse and a ruffed ptarmigan. Try the Ft. Youkon sled on the soft snow with moderate success
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[[line]] Saturday Jan 19 [[line]]
Morning. Warmer and signs of a change of weather. Skin two grouse. Write to father. Whymper cuts out a vest. Quite a tailor. Try the sled again.

[[line]] Sunday Jan 20 [[line]]
Morning warmer and disagreeable -19. Copy part of catalogue of collections. Get two norkas rubbed up to make two more bags. Evening write on catalogue

[[line]] Monday Jan 21 [[line]]
Morning. Warm. -18. Work on catalogue. Get two new fire bags made and trimmed with beads for presents when the ships come. Even. Get additions to my vocabulary in Koyoukon.

[[line]] Tuesday Jan. 22. [[line]]
Morning. Colder. Morning, write on catalogue and skin two birds. Give my old parkie sleeves to Yagor to have mittens made of. Get two fine ptarmigan Kurill goes out after a fox but doesn't get him. Won anorka from Pickett on Carpoffs nonarrival

[[line]] Wednesday, Jan. 23.[[line]]
Moderately warm. Set Onilna at work on a pair of gloves for me. Catalogue two grouse skins and find I have 2185 specimens of 250 species or more since leaving San Francisco this season and 161 specimens of 37 species since arrival here. Find Ivan the Old chief sleeping on my bed and turn him out instanter to the horror of several people

[[line]] Thursday Jan 24 [[line]]
Growing warmer -17 at night. Get two red bird a female ptarmigan and a three toed woodpeck. Skin them all in the evening. [[Prepare? Propose?]] to go over to [[Tacheitsky? Tackeitsky?]] but can't get any dogs. Bet three norkas that Carpoff dont arrive tomorrow

Transcription Notes:
rosserm/rosseum may be Dall misspelling for roseum or the second s may be an e, pencil hard to read. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseum