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will as a number from the last skins which have to be resalted on board the "Katik". The skins are slid down a chute from the salthouse to the beach below. Here the natives load them upon their backs and carry them [[strikethorugh]] down [[/strikethrough]] out to the water's edge on the rocks, where they are dropped and where the ship's crew take them and throw them into the boat. 
A little after noon the "Porpoise" was seen steering east 6 or 7 miles to the north of us. 
The work of taking in the skins was finished about 4.30 pm. but as the SW. was still blowing with ever abated force, it was decided
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