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[[line]] Wednesday, May 15, 1867 [[line]] Cleans and finish ten bird skins and skin three small birds. Put away and catalogue a lot of specimens, get out trading goods for trip [[line]] Thursday May 16 [[line]] Morning. go up to the house with Whymper & Dyer and put up 12 telegraph poles. Come down to the house and find Kurill who brings me in six snipe and plover and two white geese, one alive. Get a new duck from Ivan. Write on letter to the prince, catalogue and Met. Record. [[line]] Friday May 17 [[line]] Morning. A little of the ice, opposite the fort goes down stream. Our bidarra skin is being mended It is in very poor condition rotten and old. It will hardly hold together to take us up there. Skin 14 birds in afternoon. Yagor in to tea [[line]] Saturday May 18 [[line]] Morning. Work at packing away things and taking out what we want to leave here till we return. Water in river rapidly rising. Get the bidarra finished, stretched oiled and set up on the cache to dry. Afternoon go up on the bank with all hands and put up the remainder of the mile of poles. Aloshka is going to clear it up [[line]] Sunday May 19 [[line]] Morning go on with packing. Ice on Youkon breaks up and comes floating down without any noise or disturbance about one oclock. Skin 4 birds and put away all my ducks and geese. Get the ridgepole on our new house. Day very warm and pleasant. Ice broke up last year on the 21st of May. The water is rising very rapidly. [[end page]] [[start page]] [[line]] Monday May 20, 1867 [[line]] Morning, sew musquito nets. Finish packing. Skin four birds, get two new kinds of birds. Water very high but ice still stationary. Weather very fine [[line]] Tuesday May 21, 1867 [[line]] Work over maps for myself and Dyer. Skin six birds get a beautiful duck from Woolysatux who arrives with beaver skins and a little meat, from the headwaters of the Nulato River. Ice going down stream well and the water up to the foot of the steps at the bank [[line]] Wednesday May 22, 1867 [[line]] Morning Clear. ice flowing slowly past. Get a sail for our bidarra. Go up and cut some tent pins find two new molluscs and get two new snipe. Yagor and Ivan into dinner. Go up in the woods again after dinner, collect a few insects &c [[line]] Thursday May 23 [[line]] Clear and warm, skin six or eight birds and put away a lot of specimens. Get a water hen Woolysatux goes away tomorrow. Ice nearly gone. The [[casárme?]] has only been built six years on the place of the old one which had all in one building. Ivans house has been built four years and the fence five years Notarme the first bidarshik had the fort north of this at the open place but Serabin moved it down near its present situation. Zagoshkin saw it in the original place. [[line]] Friday May 24 [[line]] Morning. Pack bag for up river. Get a lot of swallows, one new one. Take a good hot bath and skin six birds. Grub all out except what we are to take up the river. Ice nearly all gone. Fix tent in afternoon. Will start in about two days. [[end page]]
