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about 12 oclock. Toward night it snows hard. 
Row for an hour or two and reach [Iktijalik ?] about 7 P.M. Sleep in Andreas house. He is the only one there. Take along the bidark.
[[line]]Monday Oct 7. [[/line]]
Start late about nine A.M. + with the bidark that Kurill went up the river in on top of the bidarra, reach the post at Unalakleet about 2 P.M. just in time to go in to a good hot bath with Popoff. Take tea and grub and feel decidedly better. Since I have been gone three bidarras have arrived from below, and some Indians from above brought down a great deal of whiskey + they have all been drunk.
[line] Tuesday. Oct. 8 [line]
Morning. Pay off the men for their work. Go over the river in the bidark and walk about five miles to see a curious fish or animal which