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the work up here for worlds. No one can ever know except myself, the bitterness of being utterly alone and fighting a crowd singlehanded; and a crowd too of men who stick at nothing to advance their own interests. Evening read & make out lists of stores to take up the river. There is no one up here whom I can rely upon as a fast friend in any emergency
__________________Thursday Feb. 14,1867_____________
Morning cold again -34. Get two pair bootsoles & take them in to old Yagorsha. Make some biscuits & Whymper makes a pie. Evening work on vocabularies
__________________Friday Feb 15,1867._______________
Get a good hot bath. Evening. work over vocabularies with Temoshka getting some Premorska words.
__________________Saturday, Feb. 16 ________________
Morning. Ivan's baby sick, no castor oil to give it but get it better at last. Work over vocabularies and finish the Ingaleet. About midnight Ivans child drops dead without a struggle. A proper supply of medicine might have saved its life.
   Last night the Capt Sacked Onilna for one of her fits of illhumor but as she appears very penitent he agrees to take her on trial once more.
__________________Sunday Feb. 17____________________
Morning. Fix my snowshoes according to an idea of my own, and go out to try them about three miles they work very well. Philcar brings in three rabbits
__________________Monday Feb. 18____________________
Walk up to the bluff and take angles for a chart of the Nulato River & surroundings. Whymper & Dyer go part way & turn back. Whymper having frozen one of his ears. Coming back stop at Ivans childs grave; a number of Indians down from Koyukuk
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______________Tuesday, February 19, 1867____________
Morning. Clear and fine. Go down to the lower point of the Nulato river to take angles for a chart. Come back and make some good gingerbread. Evening work on chart.
______________Wednesday, February 20________________
Morning. Cold and disagreeable. Make some biscuit and get a bird from Peetka already skinned, of last years collecting. Get hold of the horn the Captain brought from Fort Youkon. Write up some notes &c. A baby born to Pasvilkoff; these women are like animals in dropping their young. Evening get some rabbits from old Ivans woman, and skin a grouse David brings in
________________Thursday Feb. 21___________________
Morning snowing & warm. +10. Make some soup which unfortunately gets burnt. Evening skin two birds and add to my vocabulary of Premorska. Ivan the Tyone comes in to find out whether the Americans eat children, on account of a joke played on some of the women here
________________Friday, Feb 22_____________________
Morning. warm and cloudy. bath day & get a good hot bath Dyer makes some bread & gingercakes & Whymper burns them. Have some pea soup. Write to father on a long letter begun sometime ago. Two birds brought in. Washingtons birthday. raise the flags but no powder for a salute.
_________________Saturday, Feb. 23_________________
Morning. a little colder. Writing to father. and getting out trading goods. Evening. put away some specimens & skin two birds. Make up some liquor for the Captain who gives Antoshka a drink and rather fuddles him. He goes into the [[casarmé?]] and tumbles against Carpoff who throws him down. The boy runs at him upon getting up, and Carpoff knocked him down and stamped on him [[Honlbna? Honilna?]] came in & K. & Dyer go in and bust him in the snout. Afterwards have a talk with Ivan who refuses to let him sleep

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"+c", i.e. "&c" i.e. "and c", = older form of writing "etc."