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New Ulukuk. The Russians leave us and pass on.  Chabounin ceases to take one of my sleds from here as he has so much baggage that I can not carry it. Get a young fellow from Ulukuk to take it, and take the heaviest sled an English one my self. Kurill cuts out a new runner of green spruce, we mend the sled & push on. [[Hamilkars?]] wife & a lot of ukali come along & I buy ten or fifteen.  Push and though we do not know it at the time, pass the Russians and camp just beyond the Vesolia Sopka.  A strong wind & poorga

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Push on past Ivans barrabora nearly to Beaver Lake and finding an old Indian camp we clean it out & camp there.  The weather could hardly be worse.  The wind blows the bidarra over two or three times.  Poorga of the worst kind & if we were not among the trees it would be impossible to travel.

Transcription Notes:
poorga or purga = blizzard sopka = volcano, word usually applied in Russian Far East. Rosanne Johnson