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Leave our camp on the beach about 7.15 A M, and track pull and sail till 11 when we stop near the mouth of the Tozikakat R. start on soon and keep sailing but cannot sail with the Russian boat & therefore fall behind. About half past five come round the bluff opposite Nuklukahyet Where we find the Russians taking tea & waiting for us take a hasty cup of tea & go across with them. The Indians who came up with us form on one side and those living there on the other & After a few words from the Nuklukahyet Tyone (who came down to Nulato last winter each side advances alternately and go through

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a kind of mock fight firing their guns loaded with powder in the air There are very few people here. The news is not good as follows. Antoine Houle & the English Indians at least two of whom we expected to be here to guide us up, are all gone, two days for there is nothing to eat here. They left no message which is singular. But in the event of the worst, having to pull our way up alone, I think the meat I laid in at Newikakat & a little we have with the Russians & our other grub will carry us up. We send a man with some ammunition &c up in a lodisca to overtake him and get him to wait if possible. get our stuff ashore