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[[preprinted page]] FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1865 [[preprinted page]]

Morning fair and clear.  Little wind but a heavy sea and the vessel pitching tremendously.  It does seem as if we would never get to Petropaulovsk.  Write up the pencil notes of the early part of this diary and finally finish them.  Caught Dr. Fisher smuggling books out of my own & Glovers rooms, and when inquired for the immaculate gentleman gives no sign.  Read a good deal in the "Schönberg-Cotta Family", and like it very much.  Toward night a good breeze springs up, and at nine o'clock at night we have a fair eleven & 1/2 knot breeze.

[[preprinted page]]SATURDAY 14 [[preprinted page]]

Morning.  The breeze of last night died away about midnight and we are here rolling in a dead calm with a clear sky and pleasant day, and the snow clad peaks of Kamchatka in plain view.  We are about ninty miles from the Bay of Avatcha.  Paint nearly all of the underside of the unfortunate union for our Revenue Ensign which had its tail burnt off.  Pack up all my bottles which the Doctor hasn't stolen and put the chest amidships.  Pack the preserve bottles on deck and finish the flag.  General cleaning up as we are going into port-we hope very soon.

[[preprinted page]] SUNDAY 15 [[preprinted page]]

Morning.  Work into Avatcha Bay and run up by the spit which forms Petropavlovsk, narrowly shaving the shoal.  Messrs Farnsfield, Coles, Hunter and Fluger come aboard the barque in a whale-boat and are invited down into the cabin and entertained there. Muster at 2.  Go ashore in the afternoon and visit  Capt. Hunter, Mr. Fluger and Mr.Pierce and visit the battleground and turn over some shot and shell still laying about.  The town is fast falling into decay, and the public establishment is already removed.  The trade is principally in furs.  Come aboard with [[Dav?]]

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[[preprinted text]]MONDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1865[[preprinted text]]

Morning.  Cloudy with squalls.  Make ready to receive visitors from on shore.  Go ashore with Smith, Whymper & Glover.  Go up to Mr. Fronefield, and then go off leaving Smith at Mr. Flugers.  Have Nortons rubber boots, and wade about in the small lake after mussels but don't find any.  Go round the hill with Smith and discover three species of Helix, one [[Vitrina?]], four beetles and going back obtain one perfect and several large broken Auodons.  Bark Behring leaves for San Francisco and will take our mail.  Lunch at Flugers, get salmon and coppers from Fronefield.  On board with Glover.  Barque drags, wind moving a live gale.  Two anchors out.

[[preprinted page]]TUESDAY 17 [[preprinted page]]

Morning at first cloudy but calm, afternoon very clear.  Go ashore with Whymper, Smith and the Doctor.  Look at the La Perouse monument, and go around the beach from the point-round the little harbor and spit and down the other side.  The barque is towed by the boats up to a safe anchorage under the lee of the point.  Collect on the sunny north bank apparently the same helices &c that abound in New England.  Hellixhoupa, pura, striatella, Vitrina pellicida, Tua lubrica, Pupa simplex, &c.  [[strikethrough]] May [[/strikethrough]] Doctor, Field, &c are going to the warm Springs but I shall not go, to be an intruder, although I can, by saying  so.  Come aboard at 4.  Capt. S. goes ashore.  Row with men from the Behring in eve.

[[preprinted page]] WEDNESDAY 18 [[preprinted page]]

Morning clear and cold.  A heavy hoar frost fell last night and the surface of the water in the Bay is covered with thin floating ice.  Barque Behring hauls out into the stream and the schooner with 4 officers & two men goes out.  Spend nearly all day in collecting beetles and small land shells on the sunny north bank.  Whymper gets a very fine specimen of Cynthia from the beach yet alive.  All hands on a general drunk ashore.  Captain ashore.