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1874

Sunday Aug 9
Early in A.M. fresh N. wind clear get underway and we make out to get out of the strait & on the E side of the island. The falls dead calm for rem. of day. Clear and fine. Ww at Dry Bay chart.

Monday Aug 10
Day half cloudy, fair, fresh S & SSW wind. Working over chart of the Fairweather ground most of the day

Tuesday Aug 11
Day fine and clear, wind light SSW Beating all day along the coast toward Moller Bay, in 13-10 fms about 3 miles off the coast. At noon Cape Seniavine bears SSE 3 miles, lat. 56 28°. At 9.10 anchor in seven fms off the mouth of Port Moller. See two volcanos one smoking to NE & one Pavloff with two peaks to SW  Also seven glaciers and two remarkable prongs near 2nd N. volcano. C. Seniavine a low grey sand bluff. C. next O. low and grassy in conspicuous gust NE of Moller 2 white sand banks or bluffs say 25 to feet high. Soundings in evening [[?]] very slowly from ten to seven & seven  1/4. 

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Wednesday Aug 12
Early A.M. clear fine. Light SE wind, later calm later fresh NE & N wind. Beat into port Moller about 8 A.M. Send the boat ashore at once and get Latitude time with sextant astronomical & mag. azimuth with theodolite. Go out in the large boat & sound over the harbor. See many reindeer, seal, birds & a bear. Tide goes out & we have to drag the big boat over several miles of flats.
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Thursday Aug 13
Early A.M. dense fog. Later clears away. Capt. Herendeen goes ashore & kills two deer. After working in A.M. on chart, go ashore & take angles & bearings from small bluff. Should have had a shot at four deer but scared them away. Find some hot springs and some fossils seemingly Jurassic or Cretacious. Start back about 5.20 P.M. & pull against wind & tide until past nine, before getting on board. Evening clear tide stacked up in A.M. abt 9.30. P.M. about 4 oclock. Rise and fall at least six feet