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shortly after the Indians say [slarostine?] is dead. Buy a duck. wish fervently I was at the Redoubt. in great anxiety about the eruption
[line] Tuesday Oct 22 [line]
Strong West wind and heavy snow storm. Impossible to leave, to my great disappointment. They are  catching a good many seal here. Of the skins they make bags, oil of the fat, eat the meat and make gut shirts + lodge covers + sails of the intestines I hate this place. I have never been here but with some trouble the first time detained three days by head winds the second lost my bidarra  the last when my need of going on is greater than ever, again storms  They stole two pair of blankets last year + about 20lbs of fat this year from us. The village consists of 7 house + the casine