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[[page upside down]] 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 [[/page upside down]] [[end page]] [[start page]] 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 _______________Sunday Nov 17 _________________________ 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