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[[blank page]] [[end page]] [[start page]] [[left margin]] Sep 6 Friday [[/left margin]] Do do [[left margin]] Sep. 7 Saturday [[/left margin]] Do. do. Got up for supper no weather is moderating [[?]]. Finally in sight of snow patches on Bering Islnd. According to Lindquist then Alaska Commerical Co's lean expired in February 1891, for which [[?]] if [[?]] and got the seals [[?]] if the full catch 1890, some 5000 skins which the "Alexander" received before May '91. The transfer to the new company was effected that summer. According to the [[underlined]] new [[/underlined]] contrast the government [[?]] 11 rbs per skin, of which it pays to the nations [[underlined]] r 6 1.50 [[/underlined]] for ^[[insertion]] [[?]] [[/insertion]] [[?]] and [[?]]. The company has nothing to do with the scaling excepting [[?]]. The salt, as the governments contract is to deliver the skins at the ships risk. [[blue pencil]] 588 [[/blue pencil]]