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but no provisions, and about five lbs of lead.
[line] Monday 19 [line]
Go ashore, bye + bye and find All hands getting goods down and get everything on board except the baggage. Hand in my list to Wright who is in command here at present. Get 3 cups, 2 messpans  in the way of utensils. Write Wright a letter asking him to leave me here + stating reasons. Also a list of what I want left here. Also a note stating that for the sum of fifty dollars I will feed + clothe + send up to Fort Youkon in the spring. Jean Baptiste Boucher. He is the lad we brought down from Fort Youkon. Too rough to take off the steamer as they wished. Wright sleeps ashore. All hands very drunk.
[line] Tuesday Aug 20 [line]
Get my things. They proposed to leave me without even one axe But I get one from Bean and