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[[preprinted]] MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1865. [[/preprinted]]

Morning.  Headlands of the barest and bleakest, with a sprinkling of snow too ragged to hide their naked ruggedness.  Some doubt as to which is the entrance to the Plover Bay where Moore wintered in the ship that bears that name.  Longitude settles it finally. & we go beating in against an icy wind which blows out of the very throat of the Bay.  In the afternoon spy a hermaphrodite brig and a steamer probably the Wright in the N E Harbor.  Spend most of the evening making out the vessels course to the Bay from Norton Sound.  Read the Virginians & to bed. 

[[preprinted]] TUESDAY 26 [[/preprinted]]

Start early in the morning to make our way up the Harbor.  Make eleven tacks, all hands helping and finally fetch up just above the steamer in the lower harbor.  It is protected by a long low sand spit and has 25 fms water, mud and clay bottom.  Good holding ground.  Two Indian settlements, one on the spit and one on the opposite side of the bay near the mouth.  The brig is the Victoria of Honolulu, Capt. Fish.  I board her and find she is a trader and whaler and goes in a day or two.  Get a list and account of the the vessels including the Harvest.  Honolulu burnt and bonded by the Shenandoah pirate.  Palmetto has sailed for Frisco yesterday afternoon after filling up the Wright with coal. Steamer sailed in P.M. 27.

[[preprinted]] WEDNESDAY 27 [[/preprinted]]

In the morning go ashore to the watering place with Capt. Scammon.  Pass through a defile in the mountains to a watercourse and large fresh water lake nearly level with the sea from which it is separated only by a low sand or single bar.  Every thing is broken rock without a trace of soil.  Lee Crows, Neindur and fish, probably trout.  Come back and get a number of things from the roots of the kelp on shore including a new tunicate. A crysidula, large whelk, Saxicava Yumma, etc.  Hyde comes down, by order of Col. B. into the wardroom.  Pride &c., Nocum, Eskimo comes aboard with a lot of his tribe.  Try to get a seals head from him, and see about the whale. 

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[[preprinted]] THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1865. [[/preprinted]]

Morning. [[underlined]] "Young Walrus" [[/underlined]] Nocum's son of two years old, is aboard early in the morning.  Go ashore with Capt. Scammon and get a large number of specimens, including three skulls of Eskimo dogs.  Can do nothing with the whale's head.  Nocum's real name is Norman Walker but they call him Nocum for short.  Their summer houses are made of walrus skins, the winter ones of turf with a walrus hide roof, and whales bone for supports.  Come aboard in his boat, get lunch, and again, ashore, get masses and aboard with [[Col?]]! Hyde.  Evening try to get the collections of the day into some kind of order.  Quite tired.

[[preprinted]] FRIDAY 29 [[/preprinted]]

Morning.  All the Eskimo and their families on board.  Get a good supply of reindeer meat, a pair of horns and the thorax and flippers of and old hair seal.  Kedge out, a little way and remain till afternoon.  Black moves into Glovers room and I set to work fixing up own room putting in some shelves, racks for brushes, maps &c. and make my berth some six inches narrower, by taking out a slat and moving the sideboard.  Work till late at night getting everything ready for a gale which is evidently setting in.  At four take our departure. 

[[preprinted]] SATURDAY 30 [[/preprinted]]

Ran about 10 knots all night making about one hundred and eighty miles travel since four o'clock yesterday.  A heavy snow storm sets in and the awning is put up.  Write most of the day.  Write to Granma Dall and Ellen Wilde.  Get some stationary from Lt. Wright.  There is some mystery as to our destination which I should judge from appearances and the vessels course to be either Petropavlsk or Japan.  Captain Scammon sets me to work at a reconnaisance chart of Plover Bay made by Captain Kadin.