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Baker & Capt Herendeen, Back by 6 P.M. Evening closes cloudy [[solid line]] Sunday July 13 [[solid line]] Rainy & cloudy in A.M. Half clear in P.M. Get observations for azimuth and pick up a few minutiae on the beach. [[solid line]] Monday July 14 [[solid line]] Day half cloudy, light Northerly winds Start at nine pm & spent the day running shore line from South Head [[triangle symbol]] to South End [[triangle symbol]]. Mr Baker gets some equal altitudes & circummeridian observations. Capt Herendeen gets some bearings from a hill in the middle of the island, on some of the outlying islands. Return about 7 P.M. cloudy [[solid line]] Tuesday July 15 [[solid line]] Cloudy with some fog & moderate easterly wind. Go over to Little Kyska and run the shore line take the angles & alter the position of signal. Back by 5.30 P.M. Evening rainy [[solid line]] Wednesday July 16 [[solid line]] Platting shore lines all day & arranging collections in P.M. Rainy foggy & strong SE wind [[end page]] [[start page]] Bearings from Hill on the north part of Kyska Island by Capt Herendeen. Reef stretching toward Pillar Rock N.54 W Pillar bears N 60 W. 2nd day 62 W Bouldy v " [[ditto for: bears]] N 65 W? " [[ditto for 2nd day]] 78 W High head NE part Kyska N 53 E N edge Iron Id - N70 E S " " " [[dittos for: edge Iron Id]] - N 86 E S edge Little Litkin S 88 E N " [[ditto for: edge]] Rat Id S 78 E NE corner Little Kyska } S edge Rat Id }in one S 75 E small Id off Little Kyska } S edge Amchitka S 69 E Island [[triangle symbol]] S 55 E S Head [[triangle symbol]] S 41 E S End [[triangle symbol]] S 4 W Astron [[triangle symbol]] S 7 W Belt of Lowland with lakes cuts across the island just North of this peak & between it and the north Peak-