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[underlined] Scientific Corps W.U.I. Cos. Ex. [underlined]
1865.

Major R. Kennicott, Director, Chief of Explorations in R.Am.
Lt. W.H. Dall, A't'g Director, in K.s absence. Surgeon.
Lt. J.T. Rothrock, Executive officer Maj. Popes party. 
H.M. Bannister, Storekeepers assistant, St. Michaels.
Ferdinand Bischoff, Sitka.
Charles Pease, Explorer. Youkon Dept. 
Henry Elliott, Explorer. Maj. Popes Party. 
Col. Chas. S. Bulkley Eng in chief}
                                  }ex officio
Capt.C.M. Scammon, Chief of Marine}
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List of Company on Board Golden Gate for S.F.

Lts. John Davison. Russell Glover. R.C. Walker. 
J.O. Norton. Jas.J. Black. Wm.H. Dall. Geo.M. Wright
Dr. H.P. Fisher, W.B. Hyde, E.E. Smith, R.M. Field.
Nicolai Fletcher, Lawrence Corlin, Capt. Kadin, Geo. Dow, Starr Pollock, W.K. O'Donoghue.
Left at Anadyr. 
Robinson. McRae. Harder. Davis. Arnold. Norton. Morse. Smith.
Norton, Morse and Davis back.
Left at St. Michaels.
Ennis. Denison. Adams. Smith. Ketchum. Dyer. Pease. Lebarge. Green. Chappell. Cotter. Bannister. Bean. Bendeleben. Grönberg. 

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July, 20, 1865.
It is very pleasant here at sea, with the vessel going smoothly before the wind, heading for Sitka with yards squared and wheel easy. Sitting in the cosy low cabin on the lounge, with the little stove puffing its generous air about. with the little round table, just in front, and Grant. Sherman, Lincoln, Johnson, and the Shubrick, looking down at us, from black walnut frames, made by sailors out of an old table leg; with the red curtains hiding the black ports behind us and the waste of waters outside faintly plashing about the stem post, the rudder giving now and then and plaintive creak, as of a secret longing after some placid harbor. The captain bends for ward and looks up at the restless binnacle, and speaks up to the faithful quartermaster outside in the chilly night air and says "Howmany Knots Quartermaster"? "Five and a half, steady, Sir"; "All right. Keep her full." and we fall a talking a gain. Now it is of the whales and whaling; the strange sights one sees a whaling, the whales scientifically considered, and in fact stripping all that is valuable from the subject, whether blubber or bone. Now it is of dear old Boston and the good ship "Leonore" and of the China Trade and the African Trade, and James Deshon, the Avola, the Candace, the Lylph and her last hard voyage, the Marshall, and