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[line] Tuesday Apr. 21. 68 [line]
Kurill hews out oars + mast for the bidarra. Look for my birch canoes but they are still covered with hard snow + would most likely be injured if I tried to get them out now. In the afternoon Chabounin makes an unprovoked assault on Tekunka in the Russian casarme. This Chabounin is a convict + a great rascal. The Indians are very angry + threaten to leave at once, but Ivan smooths it over. Give [Spot?] to Tekunka + Leblonde to Sidorka to feed during the summer. Skin an owl. 
[line] Wednesday Ap. 22 [line]
12 fish in the trap, very small + lean. Soon there will be no fish for the water in the river is rising and will carry away the trap. Get a bag of flour of Ivan. Russians have laid the keel + will get their bidarra done.