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[line] Wednesday Oct 23 [line]
Wind and waves worse than before but a slight prospect of better things. tomorrow. Meanwhile one must live on hope + dry fish. All my bread is used up but by great good luck, [Asiguk?] has a loaf belonging to some body at Unalakleet to whom I will return it when I get back. The casine or dance house is one of the largest in the country + must have taken much labor to construct. It is 22 by 30 ft and many of the logs are over two feet in diameter + hewed down to plank about 4 inches thick with only the rude Indian axes. There is not a nail, peg, or joint in the whole building which is built in the ordinary Indian fashion supporting itself. In the afternoon clears away but wind + sea still high. The Indians all go out after deer