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his dogs.  There is a new sled but unfinished there and the son of old Coltry Staruk will sell it but asks a tin of powder (lb) and 10 caps & balls.  I would buy it even at this outrageous price but, he steals the [[runner?]] off it before he brings it down and after cussing him heartily I push on but a little way further.  Matfays sled breaks utterly to pieces and I have to send back and buy the sled after all, but get a little the better of him by sending a half lb tin of powder instead of a big one which he accepts.  Bought a small dog for a sable trap at Iktigalik, but one of my own good dogs runs off in the woods & we can't find him.  Gets dark out the Indians begin to growl & want to camp, and say there is no in in the
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Saturday November 16, 1867 -
Morning rise early before light eat & fix shoving sticks to my Youkon sled.  Start and about 11 AM reach Iktigalik.  Put my sleds on the cache and strike Matfay for his dogs & sled.  Buy a feed for the dogs, also some deer meat & a little fat and some dry deer meat & some trout.  Ingechuk agrees to take a bag of flour to Nulato.  Buy a dog for a small steel trap.  Sleep in Andreas house.  All the Indians are going to Takitesky to an egrushka given by Tekunka who has bought oil

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Start late leaving a can of fat an axe & handle & some contop at Iktijalik and push on to where Hamilcar & Ivan have built new houses near the old site of Nukkoh - want to buy a sled, as Matfay the old ruffian only gives us an old one and refuses