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and anchor on the port hand in 5½ fms muddy bottom. The water is discolored by the melting ice of the glaciers and is of a turquoise blue. Numerous large pieces of ice from the same source are floating on the bay. The bar across the entrance is a raised spit ten or twelve feet high with numerous rocks off the end - The water on the other side is much more bold. The entrance is very narrow, not more than wide enough for one vessel to enter at a time. The water shoals in the entrance from eleven fms to 4½ and again deepens to seven and continues rather irregular between 7 % 5½ well in. There is plenty of water well in shore from the anchorage on the W side. The shores are all wooded. Go ashore early and set up Astronomical station in the spit also a signal behind the huts of some natives who are are going from Sitka to Yakutut and who are camped here with
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Position of Anchorage -
SE 1/4 E.
Outer Rounded rock above water S56E
outer rock breaks W side SE ½S S45E
Astronomical [[symbol - triangle]] - SW by W S50W
Village [[symbol - triangle]] W ¾ N N79W
Mt. Fairweather N by W ¼ W N14W
[[ditto for Mt.]] Crillon NE ½ E N50E
Woody Point [[symbol - triangle]] ENE N69E
W end Island NE by N¼ N ? N34E
E [[dittos for End Island]] NE ¼ E ?N39E
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May 15th P.M.
four canoes and about 25 people young and old. Then one in a wooded point on the other side of the bay. Take angles with casella Theod. 3300 from here on the previous 2 signals and vertical angles in Fairweather and Crillon. Back to ship, seeing the colors set and find that the natives tried to come aboard but were not permitted by the mate then went off angry. Send Mr. Bailey & a man to assist Baker if necessary. He gets Lat. Fine and Azimuth on Village [[symbol - triangle]], with sextant