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[[line]] Friday April 12, 1867 [[line]]
Colder. Get a new fish and clean some skulls. Get a steam bath. Afternoon go down to the Nulato River. Get a partridge and some pipestems. It it is light now till nearly nine oclock at night.

[[line]] Saturday April 13 [[line]]
Clean my reindeer head but the dogs get at it and mutilate it. Skin three grouse and an owl. Joe buys 80 rabbit skins for an old deer hide and 116 for a little russian 20 cent kettle and some tobacco.

[[line]] Sunday April 14 [[line]]
Skin a crossbill and copy catalogue and barometrical observations afternoon go up to our house and go after birds but see none get alot of spruce cones

[[line]] Monday April 15 [[line]]
Get my shirt finished, made out of a shawl. Ivan Squirtsoff & the rest have a row over in the casanne. Put away some specimens. Read the Earls Heirs.

[[line]]Tuesday April 16[[line]]
Morning warm and pleasant. Copy map of Nulato. Get some owls & a little shrike. Go up to the house and round on to the bluff beyond with Whymper.

[[line]] Wednesday April 17 [[line]]
Skin five or six birds. Go over to the Nulato Bluff and round by the river about six miles on snowshoes see monday and alekoff. Sun sets abut nine oclock. Skin the bidarra and bidark to oil and repair them

[[line]] Thursday April 18 [[line]]
Morning, skin a squirrel and two grouse. Go down to the Nulato River in the afternoon with F.W, Dyer & his hosaker. Pickett tries a pair of Norweijian snow shoes which work tolerably well. Day cold and windy. It is quite light now till 10 oclock at night.

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[[line]] Friday April 19, 1867 [[line]]
Cold and windy. Catalogue alot of specimens. Get a good stream bath. Go down to the snares with Whymper.

[[line]] Saturday April 20 [[line]]
Kurill gets back. Brings 86 grouse, some rabbit skins: big owl, a little owl and two black grouse & a woodpecker for me and four norka. Go up to Paspilkoffs with all hands, set some snares and go up the hill. Back and skin the big owl which measures 4 feet across the wings.

[[line]] Sunday April 21 [[line]]
Skin birds all the morning. After dinner go up to the little River with Whymper, who sketches while I [[promisly?]] for fossils and find a few to my great delight. Win $2.50 on a bet as to a track on the snow which I pronounce fox or dog, and Dyer says is sable. Ev. Ivan in.

[[line]] Monday April 22 [[line]]
Morning, skin owl and a grouse and go up to the point with Pickett and [[Homtno? Honitno?]] & [[Johuntino? Tohuntino?]]. Got a few more fossils of the same character.

[[line]]Tuesday April 23[[line]]
Morning, go up to the point and spend all the morning in an almost fruitless search after fossils. Afternoon, go down to Massacre Point and open an indian grave and get a good skull, which I take back and feel quite relieved when it is safely deposited under my bed. As my life might have paid the penalty of discovery. Day very hot.

[[line]] Wednesday April 24 [[line]]
Skin a bird and put away a lot of specimens. Catalogue all my fossils. Get a fine hawk from Woolysatux who arrives with Ivan bringing a lot of papers & notes from Unalakleet; also Sidorka. Get a box of specimens ready for Pickett who goes down to Unalakleet tomorrow.