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board in the P.M and get Burgham ashore.  He bears it pretty well.  The Captain Dingen gets through with the accounts today & the result pools up about $6,000, for the Hutchinson Co. & $1,200, missing, sold by Stepanoff since the 1st of June.  Get some rice, sugar, and butter & a loaf of bread from Adams as Bean has given us notice that the boarding house is closed.

Friday July 24
Morning try my best to get my bill on Stepanoff settled.  Take my receipt to Dingen who will not pay it until the a/c is settled, which will be at Sitka, then get marké which he will not redeem, but finally by paying 20 percent discount get silver to the amount of $40.00 for marké to the amount of $50.00.  Then send my servant over to the village to buy fish.  Get some skins turned.  Go off to the schooner to get some medicine and see to dressing Burghams face & arm in his room.  Alexis is attending him as nurse.  Take a 

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Saturday May 23
Cold south wind.  Water steadily rising but very slowly.  Ivan says this is the latest spring for 16 years - always previously about the 20th or 21st the ice had left.  Skin 7 birds, 3 of them ducks and pack a lot more.  Kurill brings in three geese & 7 ducks.  Sidorka kills me a number of small birds.  Paspilkoff mends my alcohol tank which leaked.

Sunday May 24
Morning.  Make bread, using the last of our flour make 10 loaves.  Skin 10 birds.  Write out catalogue & labels.  About noon the Nulato River ice comes down but not very rushingly as the water is low.  About half past four P.M. the ice on the Youkon starts, and moves slowly down about a mile, but sticks on a sandbar - and stops.  Will probably get well underway tomorrow.  Kurill leaves for the island in the evening.