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[[preprinted]] SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 1865. [[/preprinted]] Rainy, but soon clears up, showing a fine clear sky for a short time. No muster. Dr. Fisher comes on board. Go on shore in the course of the day to see Mr. Lugeville who sent me by Mr. Bean for some Russian books and a dictionary. In the evening, taking an official envelop to Mr. Ivanhoff & the acting Gov. Stop at the Badger and bid the boys (anadyrs) fare well, having a song and a glass of wine there. Then to Mr. Lugevil's again where I spend one of the pleasantest evenings, with singing dancing and Russian games. Four ladies were present [[preprinted]] MONDAY 21 [[/preprinted]] (My birthday) all quite good looking, and I became very much interested in a young lady, the wife of Lieutenant Kilkoffsky commanding the Russian troops here. Have a generally jolly time; Mr. Walker dances a jig, and we come aboard in teh rain about two oclock this [[underline]] A.M. [[/underline]] Sleep until seven. Rainy still. Mr. Kennicott aboard and we prepare to leave Sitka. Milton Badger leaves for the Anadyr River, and the Clara Bell for Victoria early in the day. Many Russian friends came down and waited a long time in the rain [[insert]] to see us off. [[/insert]], but at a late hour in the evening were still in Sitka harbor. [[preprinted]] TUESDAY 22 [[/preprinted]] Rise early and find the steamer getting up steam. Mr. Ivanhoff, Krager, Lugevil, Andres, Lieut. Kilkofsky and others come down to see us off. We receive and return a salute of 21 guns and sail out of Sitka Harbor in tow, leaving the hospitable Russians to their rainy home. Our halfbreed pilot and an Aleute Islander go with us and their bodarkie is lashed in the whaleboat. The day is fair with no wind but we can see the rain around Mt. Edgecomb. See the Clara Bell in the offing in the evening. [[end page]] [[preprinted]] WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 23, 1865. [[/preprinted]] Fair and cold. Mt. Edgecomb sunk out of sight, & a dark cloud only, over where it should be; reminded of rainy Sitka. Spend most of the day in cataloguing and packing our Sitka collections. They are very fair, considering, weather, red tape, & shortness of time, tc. Get it all packed. As soon as I can get my notes written up I shall take up Russian again. H. gets a spoke in his wheel about the watch. With the captain and Whymper in the evening. rain again at night. Everything connected with the vessel works well, and the sea is like glass all day. [[preprinted]] THURSDAY 24 [[/preprinted]] More swell this morning. Nail a cover on to my box of specimens; direct it, and put in in my state room. Spend a good part of the morning in sketching some naked mollusca from Sitka. About one o'clock the wind becoming quite fresh. the steamer cast off the hawser and continued on her way under sail. We soon distance her, and about four in the afternoon, have to heave to, to better catch up; which she does under steam and passes us about six. but doesn't take up the tow line. Spend the evening with Capt & Whymper [[preprinted]] FRIDAY 25 [[/preprinted]] Morning. The steamer is still far behind in the offing and for a good part of the day keeps there. Put out the trawlnet and catch a new genus, a very pretty shell. pteropodons, but only one specimen, and be dead. Spend most of the morning drawing and coloring some of the specimens obtained at Sitka. Dandyfing for dinner. In the afternoon the Wright comes alongside and the captain takes a whaleboat and goes ashore and the steamer then takes up her hawser again. Spend most of the evening with the Capt & Dr.
