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[[start page]] [[line]] Thursday April 25. 1867 [[line]] Morning go up and help Paspilkoff get up some heavy logs onto the house. An Indian comes down from Koyoukuk with piece of moose meat. Afternoon skin five birds and two squirrels and get a lot of beetles. Get a good hot steam bath. Pickett starts for Unalakleet with a box of specimens &c with sled [[alone?]] [[line]] Friday. April 26 [[line]] Put away specimens, catalogue them. Write on notes for Prof Baird [[line]] Saturday, April 27 [[line]] Antoshka gets back from Takitesky with some deer meat from [[Tecunka?]] who has killed two deer, and a magnificent white owl for me. A Great Prasnik, Easter of the Russians. Dine with Yagor and the bidarshik. Skin birds in PM. Evening read Not Dead Yet a fair novel [[line]] Sunday April 28 [[line]] Skin birds in morning. Write up catalogue and get a new owl. Have Yagor and Ivan in to dinner Old Marie dies. [[line]] Monday Apr. 29 [[line]] First goose seen. Write to Baird all day. Make a handle to my fan of grouse tail. Ivan tyone makes 2 paddles [[line]] Tuesday Apr. 30 [[line]] Go up and get four logs on to the house for Paspilkoff Get some beetles and explore an old Indian house coming back. Finish report for Baird to May 1st [[line]] Wednesday May 1 [[line]] Skin a small hawk and a snipe. Go out and get some beetles and break my knife. Afternoon fix my cap & havelock [[line]] Thursday May 2 [[line]] Go up and get up six logs for Paspilkoff, in doing which Kurilla gives his fingers a bad jamming. Indians down with a lot of reindeer and moose meat and some bird skins very poor but buy them. Write on vocabularies in afternoon [[end page]] [[start page]] [[line]] Friday, May 3rd, 1867 [[line]] Morning. Kurill kills the first goose of the season, and two ducks. Skin them although very poor specimens. Get a hot bath. Finish Nulatosky vocabulary. Get a sparrow. [[line]] Saturday May 4, 1867 [[line]] Morning put away all my loose traps in a bag, and stow them in the magazine. Pickett arrives from Unalakleet with some bootsoles and ohjoy! two pair of american boots. Letters from Denison and Ennis, the latter as soapy as ever. He brought back my box as his sled broke down and he got up to his neck in water in the Ulukuk River. Vesolia Sopka river also open. Scurvy + gonorhoea raging at Unalakleet, but most fortunately, thousands of deer have made their appearance and they have killed a great many. After noon skin three birds. Ennis writes he has [[5?]] miles of poles up. Smith is gone down with Stepanoff and Francis is tripping to the Redoubt to bring up coal to get the steamer down in spring. [[addition to this day entry written vertically on left margin of entry:]] Birth day dinner with Yagor. [[line]] Sunday May 5, 1867 [[line]] Write up and finish Koyoukun vocabulary. Go up to the house in the morning; the little river is running a torrent and the Nulato River is nearly open. It is quite light now till half past ten oclock at night [[line]] Monday, May 6. [[line]] Write up catalogue and meteorological record. Boil and clean a reindeer skull. Go up and get 6 logs on to the house for Paspilkoff. Get a goose in [[Pill?]] [[line]] Tuesday May 7 [[line]] Skin three geese, two of a new kind which Kurilla shoots two and Antoshka one. Joe & Whymper go to the Nulato River but return without anything It is quite hard work to skin a goose. They are very large [[end page]]
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"+c", i.e. "&c", is an older form of writing "etc."
