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return down the river,
-Monday May 27, 1867-
Start at 3 A.M. and soon pass the Russians who went a little farther & camped. Go through a small slough between two island Stop at the Kayoukuk Sopka and take tea and buy a little dried deer meat and a fish & duck. Hoey is posted here. Pass the Sopka and round a turn or two in the river crossing twice and camp about three oclock P.M. on a point of willows in anticipation of rain meet Ivan & a lot of Kouyoukuns half way between the Sopka + camp, Larriown + Cousin are there. Buy a lot of dried meat + fat. Proceed to camp in company with several Koyoukuns. & in advance of the Russians. Take the best place we can find, last years camping ground being covered with water. Buy about fifty lbs of dried meat, tongues & fat & a goose & duck. Feel quite vain of my success in trading. Have to pay large prices to the Koyoukuns in compari
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son with the Mahlemuts. Pack up meat to put aboard the Russian boat, as ours is very small & crowded. N.B. Buy a gull & 15 mouse skins at the Sopka & leave with Hoey, to bring down when we come back.
Buy a king fisher of an Indian at camp and get a lot of succineas & beetles. See a sandhill [[crane?]] but cant bring him down, also many swans, and some black geese, get two eggs of the latter, which flew away The Sopka is [[strikeout]]sandstone[[/strikeout]] perhaps 500 feet high or more (with the plane of the strata parallel with the river at an angle of 760!) Foliage on the island first willow alder &c   & then poplar and on the high parts spruce, larger than below, there is more willow & poplar on the north bank & spruce on the south, low land except the Sopka. Day fair but cloudy with thunder showers.
_________Tuesday May 28 ____________
Start early about 1 A.M. Ivan & Wooly satuks come up & bring some
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