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[[start right page]] [[written upside down]] [line] Friday Nov 1. 1867 [line] Start early and push on over a new bad road, having to cut many willows to get through. Chi peet at [Gobsover Reitchka?] at 11. Kill a female reindeer. Take the heart liver + udder. Get across Tolstoi Pt and bring the dogs + sled to [Topanica?] making off all the bore from the runners on the rocks having to carry every thing round area two points. There is but little ice and no snow on the beach and the going could not be worse. Take tea with reindeer milk for the first time in Russian America in two years. The Indian house is very dilapidated + smokes. [line] Saturday Nov. 2 [line] Start about 8 P M after chi peet + I push on alone to Unalakleet, leaving the dogs [[/written upside down]] [[end right page]] [[start left page]] minutes. The patient appears to be half conscious but when recovered remembers nothing of what has occurred. The previous symptoms as they are described to me, are a whirling sensation in the region of the heart and in the head, the after symptoms, faintness, and headache for two or three days and sometimes an attack on the second day similar to the first. No serious consequences seem to follow these attacks + the patient regains his usual health about the third day. They have attacked one old and one young man and four women all in good health otherwise, who have never been so before and in fact no such sickness has ever occurred here before to my knowledge or the Russians. Cold