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successful on account of clouds.  Cross Korovinsky Bay in the skin canoe to Klinskofstrom Harbor, a small bay making in from the S.E. extremity of the larger one. 
Here complete protection is had from all winds in 11 fms hard sand.  This anchorage was first used by Capt
Martin Klinkofstrom, then of the Russian American Company's Marine Service, and since by others.  The above name was applied to it by the Russians.  
Coal was reported in the bluff forming the N.E. head of this harbor, but on examination only drift fragments of lignite and silicified wood, of no value for economical purposes were found, and it is quite certain that no well defined bed even of this material, exists in this locality.  After examining the locality return to Nazan Bay to get ready for sea.
______Wednesday, Augt. 27th 1873.______
Time    Bar   Air Water Deep do  Wind
6 AM.   30.11 57°  48°    43°      S.W
12 M.   30.01 60                  S.W.
4 P.M.  29.96 60   50             S.S.W.
8 P.M.  29.90 53   46             S.S.W.
12 P.M. 29.90 50   45             W.
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Day half cloudy with light wind in A.M.  Clearer with fresh Westerly winds in P.M.  About noon weigh anchor and stand out of Nazan Bay to the Eastward, finding a very heavy N.W. ground swell off shore.
______Thursday, Augt. 28th 1873.______
Time    Bar.  Air Water Deep do[[strikeout]]  Wind[[ all headings underlined]]
4 AM    29.85 50°  45°                         W.S.W.
8 AM    29.87 49   48                         W.S.W.     
12 M    30.04 52   42                         W.S.W.
4 P.M   30.10 54   44                         N.W.
8 P.M   30.18 58   44                         S.S.W.
12 P.M  30.20 58   43                         S.S.W.
Day partly clear with fresh winds & heavy groundswell.  Fog squalls passing over from the 
N.W. in rapid succession.
Make the most Northern of the group of islands, known as the "Four Craters".  It is a very sharp and irregular island four or five miles long, from N. to S. and about half as wide, without bays or anchorages.  It is separated from the island next S.E. of it by a strait not over three miles wide & farther narrowed by a reef extending high above water, N.W. from the latter island about half a mile.
There is a rocky pillar off the N.W.