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[[start page]] Saturday Aug. 23 Foggy & rainy. P.M. with heavy SW squalls. Workover sketches & notes Sunday Aug 24 Morning cloudy. soon clearing partly with a change in the wind to the westward. Observations for azimuth interrupted by clouds. Take the boat and cross to the point where a cave is reputed to exist & find an old camping place from which we get a very few implements. P.M. go around among the islands to the southward in search of caves but can find none. The natives seeming equally at [[strikethough]] at [[/strikethrough]] loss. [[Strikethrough]] Evening [[/strikethrough]] P.M. observations for azimuth & time. Nearly clear Evening fog rolls in again. Go ashore & spend the evening with Macarty. See wild geese going south today. Monday Aug 25 Take a bidarka & go across to Korovinsky Bay up the small bay and up to the hot springs, after a very fatiguing walk of two hours Return & go to the old village & spend the night at [[Lestingkoffs?]] where every thing is very nice & clean & two pretty girls among his daughters Day foggy & wet with light westerly air [[end page]] [[start page]] [[image]] [[end page]]