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Kept on a straight course for Plover Bay (Meridian Point) taking half hourly surface temperatures. About 1.30 A.M. came up with large fragments of green pack ice and came to until daylight. Weather cloudy with short intervals of sunshine. Late in the afternoon nearly clear. A light fall of snow in the night. Wind strong gradually dying away, at sunset calm. Speak Bark Progress, Lapham, 17 whales. Work over letters and records. Late at night come to off the entrance to Plover Bay Bark Sea Breeze trying out oil nearby.

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Time.  | Bar.  | Ther. | Dry b. | Wet b. | Water. | Wind.
4 A.M. | 29.83 | 35.5  | 38.0   | 38.5   | 36     | Calm
8 " [[ditto for: A.M.]]   |   .80 | 37    | 36.5   | 36.0   | 38     | " [[ditto for: Calm]]
12 M.  |   .75 | 42.5  | 43     | 42.5   | 39 1/4 | " [[ditto for: Calm]]
4 P.M. |   .70 | 40    | 41.5   | 41.5   | 40     | E.
8 " [[ditto for: P.M.]]   |   .66 | 38    | 38.5   | 39     | 39     | " [[ditto for: E.]]
12 " [[ditto for: P.M.]]  |   .62 | 34.5  | 39.5   | 39     | 39     | " [[ditto for: E.]]
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Morning almost calm, later fresh keen wind. Day clear and fine. Anchor in Port Providence, Plover Bay, about 11.45 A.M. Send the boat in before anchoring, and get obs. for latitude, time dip and intensity. The
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steam whaler Mary & Helen, Capt. Owen; brig Tropic Bird, Capt. Jerningham and Haw. schr. Julia A. Long, Capt. Gillies, in port. Bark Progress comes in later. Cornelius, a native, who speaks English very well, tells me the Reindeer men call themselves, Tsau-yū-at' and that the Eskimo have only a commercial intercourse with them. The languages he says are entirely different. A party of natives from East Cape, including old Notokin's son last season established themselves on the S. head of Archangel Gabriel Bay, others at a point further north and more are likely to follow urged by the growing scarcity of seal and walrus about the strait. There seems to be a doubt if the death of so many people on St. Laurence Id. winter before last was due to starvation or to some disease. Cornelius says when all the natives of one village were found dead in their beds, they were not emaciated and there was blubber in the blubber rooms and plenty of walrus hide, which they would not have left if they were starving.

  

Transcription Notes:
Geographic names checked: Plover Bay, Indian Point; Plover Bay; Port Providence; East Cape; Archangel Gabriel Bay; St. Laurence Id. 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