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[[start page]] [[page upside down]] [[line]] Tuesday July 28 [[line]] Adams is getting through his business & Capt [[Dingen?]] too. See to Burgham in the P.M. Pack up all my furs & label some boxes &c. In the afternoon the place is singing with cries from drunken men & women lugging boxes & [[contop?]] around ready to go aboard. Yakerbloff, Paspeeloff, Carpoff, Matson, Lelezhik, Stepanoff, Batushka and his servant will leave on the Shelikoff, & also Popoff. Go off to the Constantine & take supper with Capt Fred Riedell who is the most gentlemanly man I have ever seen in these latitudes, then aboard the Shelikoff to say goodbye. A runaway smuggler arrives from the Kuskoquim River, in a small kayak, by the parrenose. He is well known to be a great scoundrel. He came from the Schr Kate, of Victoria. Mike was near the Canall. [[end page]] [[start page]] [[line]] Friday May 15. 68 [[line]] Get two new birds today a tern, and the beautiful Regulus calendula - or a ruby crowned wren. Get a good bath. Get some old sails mended. Skin three birds - very cold - very little water in the river yet. I fear it will be some time before the ice breaks up. [[line]] Saturday, May 16 [[line]] Morning warm & pleasant. A few geese fly over, the cave swallows arrive, & Johnnie shoots six small birds, today. Get the bidarra out of the water, oil it sew a few patches on where the lovtak is chafed and put it up on the cache covering it over with the skin of the little old bidarra - which we went up the Youkon in, last year - which I stripped off for the purpose. [[line]] Sunday May 17. [[line]] Skin 12 birds. Finish sail, yard, & mast, also boathook. Kurill shoots two geese and boils some sugar