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______ Wednesday June 12 ____________
up to this morning the water had fallen about 14 feet below highest mark but during the day it has risen again about a foot. The salmon will soon begin to come up. They invariably do after the second rise which is not as large as the first but happens every year. NW by N 1/2. Island & high yellow bluff on S so must look at when I come down. NW 2. The bluffs are yellow gravel with pebbles Dip of beds NE 5° height 250 ft, W.NW. 3, & [[?]] low. bluffs on N so to be looked at when we come down, iron stained gravel NNE 4. E 3. E by S 1. ENE 3. N.1
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Start at five ^[[P.M]] pass a dead moose in the water and the Indians kill one, of which we get some meat, chi at 11 P.M. and pass a wrecked canoe on some shoals go all day as yesterday between mountains on one side & low points on the other, alternately. Camp on a beach half a mile ahead of the Indians at 4. AM.

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_________ Thursday. June 19 __________

[[image - drawing of Indian's head]] 
NNW 2 1/2 both sides low. NW 2. N sd high S & O very low. Yukulischarkut R. running NE. N 2. S. sd high banks unstratified granite & green rock. NW 3 same rock 4 [[?]] high [[?]] low.
W by S 6. N sd high. Bluff S. sd of green rock before mentioned

[[image - 2 drawings of duck skulls]]
rotten duck found in shore to bad to keep. [[? ?]]
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Island & bluffs of greenstone ^[[(8)]], W 2. Bluffs S. sd. W by N 1. do. & camp.
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Start at 5.30 and track around a 15 mile bend which might be cut off about ten miles across. Chi peet and find the Indians have left the frying pan handle