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on and started taking a letter from the captain to us which he delivered safely. Antoine Houle will wait at Nuklukahyet for us but is out of grub and wants some ammunition. M'Cloud had just overturned his canoe & lost everything but what he had on; gun blankets flask &c. Ketchum wants us to wait at Fort Youkon till his return from Fort Selkirk for which he strikes this summer. Make an arrangement with Ivan bidarshik who gives him a letter to Yagor to feed him untill he returns from Nuklukahyet when they will go together to the Redoubt and he will probably join our company bye & bye. We gave him to understand that if he chooses during the time he remains at Nulato to work on the house he will lose nothing but of course we have no authority to engage any man and do not with to cause any trouble between the
[[margin]]Capt. K arrived at Ft Youkon May 9 1867[[/margin]]
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two companies. Ivan gives him a blanket & a flint & steel and I give him two phys [[?]] tobacco, 25 loads powder, 2 balls and a bunch Sitka tobacco to buy grub with while going down. Make up a package of ammunition for Antoine Houle and will send Cousin on ahead with it & a message in the morning.
_______Thursday June 6,1867___________
NE.6. High gravel banks mixed with rounded stones of quartzose character mixed with hornbleed epidote &c. Bluff, low of laminated rock a sort of micaceous stuff without mica. 10° N. about the end of the 6 miles the low hills previously seen come down to the river in bluffs on the N. Sd the micaceous rock continues. NE 2. a large island just opposite the first bluff. NE by N.4. more micaceous rock Dip 15° W, cleavage 35° to dip
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