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Saturday July 11, 1868
Send Ikke over to the village, to get all the women to come & sew on the bidarra.  Get 4 men to cut out the skins, take off the old skin, tie up the boat again where it needs it.  Put in two sticks to keep it straight.  Get all the women at work and at night get nearly done.  Give them tea, soup, & bread.  Get the skin in the water again to be put on & finished tomorrow.  All this I do to help Mike, not for pay or because it is any of my business.  Bean & the rest would have been a week, doing as much as I have done today for they don't know how to work.  Mike gets the goods out of his boat & beaches her, to make some improvements & in the evening puts her in the stream.

Sunday July 12.
Night very stormy.  Both the Russian & our boats get to dragging their anchors & nearly get ashore

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against a strong head wind.  About noon stop at a small lake where Kurill kills two tundrini geese.  Chipeet and start on.  Stop to rest at a small river and then put out again and finally camp on a sand bar.  The wind is really terrible, with the strongest current and two men pulling we hardly make any headway at all.  There is a great deal of ice on the banks and the water is very low, so we often are hard pushed to find a landing place.

Saturday June 6
Start early and pull along against the same high head wind.  Go into a small slough & chi peet.  Shoot at geese but don't kill any, put out again, pass several old Indian houses and the only waterfall I have seen so far, a very small one.  Camp at a small brook.  Take all the goods &c out of the boat, put them on the beach.  Wash her out and turn her over on the beach to dry.