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also a settlement on the SW side of the Big Diomede which we did not see. There was a cache and had been a hut on a small level spot, at the side of the gulley where observations were made, some sixty feet above the water. By going over the top of the island the inhabitants could communicate with the village on the SW side. Those who came off to us, gave us the following names for the islands &c._ Little Diomede, Ing-ah-khlǔḱ; Big ditto [[ditto for: Diomede]], Im-ah Khlǔḱ; Fairway Rock Weé-yǔh; East Cape Nū-wǔkh´; People on Little Diomede, Ing-ǔh-klee-mūt´; on the big one, Imah-klee-mūt´; on East Cape No-ghwāh-mūt´; Reindeer people Kǔgh-ǔkh-tǔz´-ū-mūt´. The islands are frequented by millions of small auks and divers, which afford a very good article of food to the natives who also get seal and walrus, but the land has no other inhabitants in the way of animals. The chief support of these people is derived from their position as traffickers between the natives of the two continents.
 On leaving Port Clarence last evening we obtained a very good view of the coast between it and Cape York. It appeared to
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consist of stratified rocks, which near the shore formed a high bench with beaches here and there, but mostly cliffy, interrupted by a few grassy valleys. The bench, and the frost rounded peaks a little further inland behind it, seemed to be almost wholly destitute of vegetation, and parts of it were covered with patches of old and a thin layer of newfallen snow. At 3 P.M. observers came abroad, and we sail for Plover Bay, the wind freshening to a tolerable gale  From the appearance of the sky and the reports of the natives it seemed that the ice extended out into the Strait a considerable distance from East Cape and filled the bight to the south & west from it.

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Time. | Barom. | Ther. | Dry b. | Wet b. | Water | Wind
4 A.M.| 29.80  | 35.5  | 39.0   | 38.5   | 36    | NNW
8 " [[ditto for: A.M.]]   |   .83  | 36.5  | 38.5   | 38.5   | 38    | " [[ditto for: NNW]]
12 M. |   .89  | 38.5  | 41     | 40.5   | 37.3  | " [[ditto for: NNW]]
4 P.M.|   .87  | 40    | 42     | 42.0   | 37.5  | SW. by S.
8 " [[ditto for: P.M.]]  |   .87  | 39    | 40     | 40.5   | 37    | Calm
12 " [[ditto for: P.M.]] |   .88  | 37    | 39     | 39.5   | 36.5  | " [[ditto for: Calm]]
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Transcription Notes:
Geographic names checked: Big Diomede; Little Diomede; Fairway Rock; East Cape; "Big ditto" = Big [[ditto for: Diomede]]; Port Clarence; Cape York; Plover Bay. See transcription center p. 5 of this project (p. 1 in notebook) for how to transcribe dittos, model for tables: https://transcription.si.edu/transcribe/6983/SIA-SIA2014-05216