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Tuesday Sept 22
Morning half clear. wind light all day. Start for Igognak Pt. It rains before we get there & after we get there; but I work on in defiance of it and by 6 P.M. we complete the shore line of the west side of the Bay. Get back in a rain squall about 4 P.M. The natives have found a right whale, dead in the harbor, which had been struck by the adventurer.

Wednesday Sept 23
Day showery. Wind fresh westerly work over clerical work. The sloop goes out after the whale which they do not succeed in finding. P.M. call on Col Woods.

Thursday Sept 24
Day showery fresh westerly wind Heavy snowfall on the mountains. Get my room into sea trim. Getting ballast & coal aboard. Col wood comes off in P.M. Evening go ashore.

Friday Sept 25
Morning cloudy with a little rain, and strong westerly wind. Stow specimen room, mark boxes &c. Evening go ashore. & Call on Col Wood. Getting ready for sea.

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Saturday. Sept. 26. 1874
Day cloudy, light northerly wind Take the small boat and go up to Ulakhta signal & dig for prehistorics. Get about 75 specimens & come back at 6 P.M. Mr. Shanfelt aboard to dinner. Evening clean & catalogue specimens.

Sunday Sept 27
Day cloudy with fog & light rain Work copying catalogue & writing letters. Col. Woods off for dinner, P.M. go ashore & call on the priest & up to the Cols Priest wants No. [[strikethrough]] 14 [[/strikethrough]] 15 long sighted spectacles.

Monday. Sept. 28
Day cloudy & rainy. Cataloguing & packing specimens. Priest comes off to dinner. Wants some cartridges like a pattern he gives me. and wants some letters attended to. Evening very rainy. Wind light.

Tuesday Sept 29
Morning half cloudy with showers. Wind fresh NW. At 7 A.M. stand out of small harbor. At 8 A.M. sail from Iliuliuk for San Francisco. Enter the pass with a fair tide, at noon are clear of Akutan and stand out to sea with a nine knot breeze, homeward bound.

Wednesday Sept 30
Cloudy. Wind moderate lighter in