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for which however I get a list from Yagor & a receipt. Pack my bags and boxes, but must leave a box of eggs from Fort Youkon. & some loose specimens. Work hard all day getting things to rights. packed & ready  - Dine in the Russian house. I go down on the beach & into the bidarra and pack the boat. The Indians bring down the stuff and we finally get the boat loaded and start with a heavy salute from the Fort with anxious hearts not knowing what is going to turn up or down. Start at fifteen minutes of eleven P.M.
______ Tuesday, July 16th 1867 _____
Pass the coal mine in two hours see Woolysatux there and get a piece of meat from him. Our crowd consists of
   Capt. Ketchum    Mike Lebarge
   F. Whymper       W. H. Dall
   Jean Baptiste Boucher. and
Kuvillu, Tekunka, Bidarshik Rukvvitska's brother, the Malchiska and another indian, and we are going to take Paspilkoffs wife &