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[[five lines in a language which employs cyrillic letters along with some latin characters.  Some words are Russian but others are not. Possibly a mix of Russian and Chukchi??]]

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[line] Saturday October 26. 1867 [line]
Start from Miskas barrabora about 8 A.M. + travel over the ice now three miles or more broad. It is [underlined] very [/underlined] hard walking being rough like so many knife edges. Reach the Redoubt about noon. Take tea with Stepanoff. Get a pair of boots from Kogenikoff + some medicine from Alanyan. Take it immediately + pass the afternoon in great pain + suffering. Must go back with dogs + sleds, a hard trip. Cold Northwest wind all day. Evening Lukeens new baby girl christened + I am invited to drink tea there with Stepanoff. Sleep in the [Cortorum?]

[line] Sunday, Oct, 27 [line]
Feel better. Calm + cold. Good weather for making ice. -8° only. Will wait a few days here + when the ice is good start with dogs + sleds for [Kegiatouruk?] + Unalakleet, sick or well, I have made up my mind if I can last till next spring, to use all my energies in collec -