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Wed May 20

Latitude. stand off & on to examine shore which agrees much better with La Perouse than Sebenkoff. Continue bearings & observations until 8 P.M.
Wind light & very variable all day. Early A.M. clear later hazy. Weather quite warm  Therm noon 63° in shade.
 
Thursday May 21
Morning wet and rainy. Wind light southerly and thick fog stand along the coast and pass ocean Cape which is a gravel bluff about 40 ft high with rocks off its SW end for 1/4 of a mile West of this headland and of Cape Phipps and NW of the latter the water is shoal for quite a distance and breaks for half a mile off in heavy weather. At 4.15 P.M. anchor in Port Mulgrave. The little schooner Nellie Edes of Sitka Capt Philipps and two [[crioles?]], for crew is laying here trading. She has not done much. The natives crowd around and we let old Phatay & his two sins come

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May 21.  12.55 P.M.

Ocean Cape N 1/2 W 3 miles
edge of low land   E by N.

2 miles W of ocean Cape 13 fms

aboard but keeps the rest away. Later heavy rain squalls. Pt [[Turner ?]] is a [[?]] plat spit from which the timber has been cut. There is a reef off its SW end for 300 yards, out from the shore, as we round to, to enter an other reef, close to the SE end of the point but deep water between it & the spit close in to the beach 
There are more [[nefs?]] on the east side which assist in making the harbor. All the land is low and heavily wooded with many channels ramifying in every direction. Opp. the land is flat to the base of Mts apparently horizontally stratified [[?]]
There are nine youths here and about 100 persons of Yakutat tribe