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[[line]] Sunday July 26 [[line]]
Get up late.  Attend to Berghams hand.  André who is with Louis arrives from the Mission.  In the afternoon go aboard the Thos Woodard with Adams & Capts Smith & Riedell find that they have not got off all the rum yet and we will not give him papers to leave with unless he gets it all off.  Go to the Constantine to supper - then aboard the Shelikoff & see Capt [[Dingen?]] then to the Schooner Ft. Steele & sleep there.

[[line] Monday July 27 [[line]]
Go ashore early.  Find Louis mending his bidarra, will soon start away.  Get Capt Smiths bidark sewed for him.  Get a box from Louis & look at Bergham who is doing well.  In the evening sign as witness to Capt C. J. Edequists deposition that he has no liquor aboard & as to his capacity to take down the vessel.  All Andreas bidarras start today

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to use on the road.  Peetka & Johnnie shoot small birds getting about 15 specimens of some six species.

[[line]] Monday May 18 [[line]]
Skin 13 birds.  Write to MacDougal at Fort Youkon.  Kurill kills 2 geese.  Feel unwell all day.  Can't sleep at night.  Rheumatics or something like it.  Never say die I'll pull through somehow.

[[line]] Tuesday May 19 [[line]]
Morning skin 4 birds.  Label & pack a great many.  Get birch canoes mended.  All hands shooting on the island.  Johnny falls into the water but escapes with a good wetting.  Kurill kills a sandhill crane and one goose & goes off after more, to sleep on the Island.  Kills 7 ducks and a goose.  Also a swan which fell where it was impossible to get it.  Go far up the Nulato River in the afternoon.  Yeto arrives from Kaltaf.  Matushka is going down the river to buy furs in the spring.  See 27 geese on the river