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Having secured a good outfit, a small one, together with orders and instructions approved by the Col. and countersigned by the Captain; was put aboard every vessel of the fleet. though I doubt if we get much in return except perhaps from the Gate where Caldwell is. The outfit is receipted for, and can be called for at any time; or must be accounted for, if not there. 
    I go up on the Nightingale to Plover Bay Shall then endeavor to see you by going to St. Michaels, if I do not see you or if I cannot get there I shall go the rounds and winter at Petropavlovsk, the vessels returning to Frisco. Petrop. is a good place for botany, birds, and mammals, and there are three american Merchants there. 
    I have outfit enough for two seasons (200 gals Alcohol & 250 lbs Arsenic) with economy and it is of no use to return to San Francisco for the whole Spring is lost.
    No ship has come down or gone up to Sitka, except one which went to the Sandwich Ids; therefore I have no news from Bischoff and none of our ships will touch there so that I am puzzled what to do about him. He ought to have written by the Honolulu ship but did not.
    Maynard funked and went home. Elliott