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ably the Russian Cas - vessel to take off the men & goods.  The Captain soon after comes ashore.  His name is Dingin - and the brig is the Shelikoff.  Get my 50 deerskins and 10 bags of flour - but the moose skins & powder I can't get.  Stepanoff is pretty drunk all day.

Thursday July 16
The Captain comes ashore, and goes over the Russians to find out who want to stay.  Bean takes Kogenikoff, Romanoff, Yagorsha, Ananyan and Kameroff.  A young German came on the Shelikoff as an independent trader.  He is a pretty fair kind of a fellow - opens a store in the [[?Boofka]].  Stepanoff drunk all day.  Work over my boxes & make considerable advance in my work, will soon be done.  Towards night another brig, the Constantine of the Hutchinson Company, comes in sight and anchors about midnight in the bay.  Adams, Dementoff, and Andrea of Unalakleet are onboard of her.

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deal of large ice in the river and it is raining hard.  Water rather low.  Monday agrees to go in case the other Indians do not arrive in time.  Shall try and start tomorrow if the weather permits.  About 3 P.M the ice from the Koyoukuk river, known by its peculiar blackness, comes down in large cakes and masses, Ivan cannot get far today.  Conclude finally to take Monday and leave his old mother some ukali & oil.  Grease the bidarra & get everything ready for leaving tomorrow.

Tuesday June 2
No signs of Tekunka or his Indians, so I take Monday, and get everything together and about noon push off with a heavy load.  Kurill at the helm & I & Munday at the oars.  But my winter sickness left me so weak that I can't row long so I take the steering paddle & keep on.  Chi peet at the Shoman Mountain and shooting a green