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[[page written in reverse]] 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. [[end page]] [[start page]] 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