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Sunday May 3
Morning very light wind, off Mt. Edgecombe
Take bearings & angles on what we suppose to be Mts. Fairweather & Crillon 
Breezes a liitle; stand in. Pass through between Vitskan & the E. reefs dont see the reef marked on the English chart. The reefs are at least 2 miles apart. Enter through the middle passage, anchor in the eastern anchorage about 2 P.M.  Shortly after furling sails it begins to rain. Capt Phillips, Inspector Dennis, come aboard. Later go ashore and meet Capt Cushing of C Co 2nd Artillery who takes me up to his quarters and introduces Lieut. Paddock, Lieut. Stewart, Lieut. Newkirk (under sentence of court martial for [[?dn]]) and informs me that brevet major Rodney is commanding the troops now here, comprising C & D Cos 2nd Artillery, in all about 90 men with Dr. Brooke and an asst. surgeon. Chapman is now collector but a new one is expected, M.P. Berry by the next steamer due on the 13th.  McKnight is deputy collector.  There are about 400 natives, 200 Russians & creoles and twenty civilians here.  The gold ledges are about a mile & a half from the head of Silver Bay
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