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1874

Saturday Aug 1
Morning blowing fresh from SW. Cloudy. Pack & clean shells. After lunch go ashore & do some telemeter work. Get two skulls & buy a few nicknacks. Later go aboard & send some men ashore who bring off nine very ancient & moss grown skulls, beside breaking into an Eskimo cache and cutting open their seal oil bags in the idea that the cache was a grave!

Sunday Aug 2.74
Sail from Cape [[Etolin?]], for Hagenmeister Id. Cloudy. Wind light. work all day packing & labelling ethnological collection

Monday Aug 3
Nearly calm all day. cloudy & foggy. Work over draughting. Catch a number of cod in P.M. Evening dead calm. Obs for time and latitude off W Cape of [[?]]


Tuesday Aug 4
Calm foggy & cloudy all day Draughting a map of Cape Etolin Catch a great many fish in P.M.

Wednesday 5
Day half clear, moderate SSE wind. Toward night make Cape Newenham NE by E 1/2 22 miles distant. Work over computations etc. during the day

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Thursday Aug 6.74
Morning half clear wind light. Enter the strait between Hagemeister Id and the main and about noon anchor to the NE of the inner spit in 8 fms. Go ashore for time observations but it becomes cloudy and we get none. Evening cloudy. Get a lot of crabs, but the beaches are very bare. The island is about 2000 feet high, current falls to the SW & rises from the east  [[mm?]] 2 knots to from where at its height.

Friday Aug 7
Morning. Strong SSW wind & broken clouds. Later clear. P.M. wind a little more moderate. Get astr. & mag. azimuth, and obs. for time. Work over packing specimens, and charts. 

Saturday Aug 8
Morning clear and nearly calm obs for time & latitude & complete magnetic azimuth. P.M. cloudy calm. Capt. H. goes down the strait to look for the bark we saw coming through but she was gone. Dredging very poor indeed Rocks here are porphyrites & quartzites. A bight with good SE shelter in the NW end of Id. 

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