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Sunday June 28, 1868
Reach the mouth of the Canal about 3 A.M.  See one small schooner laying in the bay, at anchor.  Get ashore and go up to the new house which I find is roofed & finished.  Work my way through piles of goods and suddenly encounter Mikes honest face & another a stranger.  Go out side & have a long talk with him.  It appears that Bean has come out having formed a new company for buying furs called the Pioneer Fur Co.  Mike is at the head of a party of Canadians who will ascend the Youkon in a boat now nearly done, above Nukluka - yet - Tom Conlin.  But Gogle and Clark of our old crowd are with them, and Everitt Smith & Morse are on the schooner which Capt Smith is now taking to Grantley Harbor, to leave Gogle.  He will return in a few weeks.  Bean is now here & Clark left yesterday.

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collected on the road.  The Indians go out shooting & bring back a beautiful duck & a Emperor goose - beside eggs & other birds.  Rains hard in P.M. move my traps from the tent to the house.  Blow about 5 dozen eggs today goose, duck & gulls.

Saturday June 20
Morning finish my cataloguing work the rest of the day over birds making 8 or ten bird skins & blowing 20 or 30 Eggs.  Sidorka kills a magnificent male Emperor Goose.  The others bring in a few small bird eggs & some gulls.  Day half fair.

Sunday June 21
Skin two large geese, two ducks and four other birds.  Pack away a lot of specimens.  Label & catalogue my fresh ones.  Shoot a few birds, geese, ducks and snipe.  No eggs today, I have collected so far about 125 eggs of different species.  It is dull work all alone, making bird skins, I shall be glad when it is over and my boxes full.  I have so far done as well as I could expect