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channel and about 9 P.M. reach Pastolic. The village is composed of a row of low miserable huts on a very low bank of a sort of flat or marsh extending back about 12 miles to low hills. Find a man, formerly a Russian rabbotnik who speaks Russian, gets us some ducks & geese & talks to the crowd about bringing bone ornaments of which we get a good many. Put up the tents and get up the bidarra & get a good sleep for the first time since Fort Youkon. 
[line] Wednesday July 24th 1867 [line]
Get up late. Hire another bidarra & four men, one Slepa, a one eyed man formerly a rabbotnik to steer the new one. In it Whymper, Mike, the Capt. & I seat ourselves and leave Pastolic with a wind not quite ahead but hardly fair. Reach a small Indian village of two huts, Just beyond a large round hill, the only landmark between the canal and the Youkon mouth. Stop here for Chi, buy some fish & berries and push on sailing & rowing. Get into the mouth of the can