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water - and then measure some of the Ulukuk mountains with boiling water.
________ Saturday Aug. 24 ________
Stepanoff gets ready to go off on a hunting expedition & takes Johnny with him. He starts about 3 P.M in the two bidarks. Give Antoshka some caps and Kurill and Lekunka a good lot of trading goods to buy fish &c with. Give Kurill tea enough for the trip up & back. Give Isaac 100 caps [[overwritten]] for [[/overwritten]] to buy back fat with & make him a present of some tobacco. Give Kurill the letter for Ivan Pavloff and get him all ready to go. 
After Stepanoff goes I eat in my own room. The Indians dont get off and I snub one of the small Russians pretty sharply, who tells me I am afraid of Stepanoff, because I wont give him liquor while the old man is away
They are a set of curs-