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[[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.

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[[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