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fallen at least a foot today go on, find the Russians asleep on the bank bout 11 p.m. chi peet and push on to sleep tomorrow when it is hot.  Buy a duck, new to my list - from Lemoshka - alive.  It is quite light all night now even when the sun is down, for about 2 1/2 hours.  Go on about four miles further and camp, leaving everything in the boat, in the open air.  

N.B. The gray Kingfisher is quite common here, builds in a large and deep hole which it digs like a cliff swallow in the face of a high bank.  I could have got several more if I had room to keep them in.  Our bidarra is [[underscore]] very [[/underscore]] small

---------Monday June 3, 1868. -------
N.N.E. low on both S. NE 2, high N.N.E 5. N.S.high white clay and gravel banks.  Mountains (low) leaning ENE, E by N4.  Ukutawutne Riv (small) very broad here with two large islands 
[[drawing]river with two islands in it [[\drawing]] E by NE, low banks on both sides NE, 5. S.Sd Nowikakgut and an island
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Leave after about an hours sleep pushing on as the Russians come along.  Track a little and pull a good deal.  About eleven the sun gets so hot that we haul up to a bank and sleep for an hour or two and then push on to the place where the Russians camped opposite Newikakgut.  There is either a flood over the banks there or no Indians or something wrong for they have not made their appearance.  The Russians are going to send two men over to look up the Indians and stay here all day tomorrow to dry the bidarra.

We all shall have to follow their example If there are no Indians there it will be very bad for us