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[[line]] Wednesday June 9th cont [[line]]
They cut out each eye from the tubers & sow the eyes close together in holes punched in the bed with a stick. The remainder of the tuber is eaten.
The Indians at Bucareli Bay sell large quantities of a fine kind of white potato, to traders and passing vessels, raising their own seed from year to year. Many of the Baranoff Id. Indians depend largely on their potato crop for subsistence. The Indians at Khutsnu grow a good many potatos but from their inferior mode of culture they do not grow as large as those raised by the whites at Sitka and the Indians who have been shown how to raise them. They know the value of changing the seed and buy potatoes for that purpose from the traders  
The second point visited, was the Redoubt, so-called, a fishing station at a point where the waters of Deep Lake empty themselves by a sort of rapid, between large rocks, into and inlet of the sound. Weirs have been constructed here by the Russians, now very old but still in use, which are so arranged as to catch nearly every fish which may
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ascend the rapids to spawn. The salmon were formerly very numerous, but the destruction has been so great and the obstacles to their reaching the lake have been so effectual that the yield of late years has been much smaller and is now in use only for local purposes. The scenery in the vicinity is very fine, the Dranishnikoff mountain reaching a height of several thousand fee, a great part of which fronts the inlet as a nearly perpendicular bluff. Mail for the office and elsewhere was posted today to leave by tomorrow's steamer via Portland Oregon.

[[line]] Thursday June 10. 1880 [[line]]

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Time.  | Barom  | Air. | Water. | Wind.
6.A.M  |  30.28 |  46  |  48    | SW.
12 M.  |  30.20 |  54  |  51    | " [[ditto for: SW]]
6 P.M. |  29.94 |  44  |  50    | SE.
Weather overcast in the morning, in afternoon rainy and unpleasant. At 1 P.M. the str. California leaves with the mail. On board the Yukon busy preparing for sea and over records and computations.
 

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