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Science. [[line]] . [[line]] I see before me a majestic form clothed half in brightness, half in shadow veiled; A brow sublimely broad and smooth. An eye Beneath whose calm regard, hot Passion dies. A mouth so grave and firm, a second glance But half reveals its sweet benignity. One arm upraised, upward & onward points. Where distant stars, unvaried courses hold. Ordained and fitted when from chaos sprung The Universe of Law. The other hand Extended towards me seems to beckon on Whither? A voice so strong & clear and sweet. [[end page]] [[start page]] early having; for the first time in the country, ridden on the sled nearly all the way. Woolly his wife & boy are all quite sick. Woolly with cold bronchitis, his wife pneumonia, & boy slow fever. The boy is terribly emaciated & can't live long. He was a bright little fellow & a favorite of mine. Get nine partridges, an owl & a losh. [[line]] Thursday Dec 19 [[line]] Start early and pass up a slough of the Youkon and into a low rolling country, full of small lakes and marshes (where I find tamarak growing as at Ulukuk) and near night reach Big Lidorkas barrabora where we expect to sleep but finding only three women there & they just leaving for Tekunkas barrabora, push on with them till we reach it. It is on a small river right bank, and rather high A great many Indians