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Wednesday May 27 Morning clear with some fog. P.M. quite clear. Wind light or none. Work over plat of Port Mulgrave. P.M. about 5 oclock in Lat. and Lon sound and get no bottom through in the wake of the so called Pamplona Rocks or bank. Get a series of altitudes to fix our position, an azimuth on Mt St. Elias which bears N by W by compass & some sextant altitudes on it for height. Later a little air springs up Thursday May 28 Cloudy fresh easterly wind with a good deal of rain and a heavy swell. Work over sketch of Lituga Bay. About 9 P.M. raise Middleton Island which is long and very low as we see it. Friday May 29 Cloudy, rainy wind light N E Beating up to Port Elches. A native comes off to pilot us in but is of very little use. About 3 P.M. we anchor in the small harbor, least water going in 2 3/4 fms, in the narrow [[end page]] [[start page]] Sound 5.21.50 25 22.15. 50 35 22.50. 50 33 23.23. 50 40 24.03. 50 44 24.47. 50 47 25.34. 50 27 25.55. 25 53 26.48. 50 54 27.42. 50 56 28.38. 50 57 29.35. 50 60 30.35. 50 6 575 no bottom entrance more water ranging from 4 1/2 to 7 fms. Anchor in 5 fms A Mr Hemingway comes off to see us. He is the agent of H.K & Co here and was for a long time 3 years at a station on the Knik river in Cook's Inlet. There are five settlements on the Bay. The largest is at Chinega where Shirpser has a post. The natives are eskimo & well disposed. Those here are Christianized many of the others heathens They bury the dead. The Copper River Indians come here to