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[line] Friday Dec. 13, 1867 [line]
Feel sick and miserable.  Do nothing all day.  35 below zero.  Alexandria sick with fits.  Russians gambling all night.  Turn in, early, and pass a sleepless night

[line] Saturday Dec 14 [line]
Bath today
Get out the remaining specimens and finish labelling them.  My collections mount up now to 1350 lots of specimens of which a good proportion are birdskins.  Bleed Alexandria who has one of the fits which seem to be epidemic here now.  Kurilla will be due tomorrow.  Day warmer -15 only and poorga & snow in evening.

[line] Sunday Dec 15 [line]
Morning, better weather -18 - clear.  Do nothing all the morning.  About 3 o'clock four sleds come in sight.  No fish in the trap.  About half past three Kurilla, Johnny and two Indians with the