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Trade, also Indians called Kilcat (?) from a village one days travel beyond the mouth of the Atna R. The Atna's get their copper from tribes in the interior. The shoal between Wingham Id & the main is mostly dry at low water, the bar part dry & part always above water even at high tide. 
The natives hunt otter off Cape Hinchinbrook where the geese breed. Otter, mink, brown bear & foxes are the animals if this Id. A few poor marten. The natives make eagleskin parkies their only kind. use bidarkas of seal skin, very broad, hunt sea lion with lances & sea otter with bow & bare headed arrows. They make no [[furey?]] work & live on dry salmon which are poor, arrive in July & August. There are clams in the harbor. Cod & flounder but no halibut, a few rock cod. Coldest last winter +12°. highest in May. about 70 in shade. Potatoes & turnips grow the last [[?]] Has been here since last June. use the Russian [[Cauguage?]] in trading. 
The Yakutat natives come up once a year. Sitka chief Skenai last

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year. The local natives are much afraid of them. Gave me some details of Knik River. cute through a chain of Mts. not high. Behind this country very level with large lakes. no inhabitants on upper Knik & [[Suchitaw?]] Rivers. Land about them low & [[nolling?]]. Post on [[Suchitaw?]] 30 miles above the [[?]] reahced in bidarras. At Knik river about twenty ditto.
The Kenai Indians called K'naya Khotana. Birches used in the rivers by both these & Copper River natives but only canoes dugouts for travelling in. Copper river natives said to burn their dead. About the Inlet they bury them. Posts at Port Graham. Kaknee R. [[Suchitaw?]] and Knik Rivers & Coal Point. of H.K & Co. Copper River Indians call themselves Aktina.
P.M. rainy & foggy, wind light.