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[[line]] Tuesday Jan 7 [[line]]
Yesterday afternoon Woollysatux (whose boy, poor fellow, is dead) & other Kaiyuk Indians arrived. Today is one of those unfortunate days when everything seems to go wrong. Vasili the old rascal wanted to take his sled back and actually took it off the cache, but I took it away from him & put it back again. Pay him a lb of tobacco 40 rounds of powder & 20 balls for it. Peetka leaves the dogs feed without any fire & the dogs clear out the kettle & to make up for it builds a big fire & burns the soup to a cinder. 
3 of my dogs are dead, went mad at Takitesky. Carpoff backs out of his agreement to cut the stakes for the fish trap. Give him a good rating. To make up, buy ten resitkas and one morda from Sidorka which will help a good deal