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Send the boat out early and succeed in finding the shoal patch in the strait. At low water, Capt Herendeen finds 3 fms; end of spit ˄[[insertion]] Unga Reefs [[/insertion]] in one with south end of Range Id. & NE. point of Popoff Id N. by E. 1/2 E.; Sand point, SE. by S. 1/2 S. The least water on it is 2 3/4 fms. With the west end Range Id & spit ˄[[insertion]] Unga Reefs [[/insertion]]in one. NW. point Popoff N. by E. 3/4 E. Sand point SE. by S. 1/2 S. There were three sounds at that depth and the shoal is about seventy five feet long & quite narrow. The bottom was clearly visible, without rocks and covered with clam shells and gravel. After breakfast stand out of Humboldt Harbor for Belkoffsky going to the Southward of Unga. Take many bearings on the land as we progress, and, arriving in the rocky region decide to lie to off Dolgoi Id. during the night.

[[line]]Thursday, July 22/80 [[line]]

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Time.| Barom. | Ther. | dry b. | wet b. | Water. | Wind.
4 AM | 29.82  | 46 | 47 | 47 1/2 | 46 | NW
8 " [[Ditto for: AM]] | .86 | 64 1/2 | 51 1/2 | 51 | 47 | Baffling
12 M. | .86 | 65 | 51 1/2 | 51 | 47 | " [[Ditto for: Baffling]]
4 P.M. | .89 | 56 1/2 | 60 | 59 | 48 1/2 | " [[Ditto for: Baffling]]
8 " [[Ditto for: P.M.]] | .95 | 50 1/2 | 52 | 52 | 46 1/2 | NW.
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Weather fine, clear with passing clouds all day. Wind light to moderate.
Occupy most of the early part of the day taking bearings from the ship. As the wind is too light to admit of getting the vessel to Belkoffsky before night we take the boat and go ashore on the south cape of Dolgoi Island.
At the top of a small gravel beach just inside the Cape, establish our astronomical station where we obtain latitude and time; from a station about 250 feet above the sea on top of the Cape get a series of angles and bearings on the myriad rocks and islands in the vicinity, with a few observations for azimuth.
Build a cairn on the site of the station and return to the vessel about 3.45
Proceed toward Belkoffsky but owing to light winds it is midnight before we can come to anchor about a mile off shore from the town in 20 fms, shelly & gravelly bottom. Bearings from the ship were taken during the afternoon.

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