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to be found in Umnak 
A Japanese junk with three sailors drifted ashore on Adakh after being nine months at sea, dismasted & rudder lost by a typhoon 
when found by a hunting party of Aleuts they had 15 [[lbs?]] of rice left a lot of paper money to buy cargo with at the port to which they were bound & some iron cash & had torn up their deck for fuel. They go down by the Hutchinson in a few weeks. They had nothing but a small compass, no chart or other assistant for navigation.
Oct. 23. Capt. Partridge gives me a Hydrobata [[F?]] (no 99) which he has just shot -